Ansible roles solve that. It's a way of organizing tasks in a way where you can use them from other playbooks and supply the configuration parameters for it. A

Ansible roles solve that. It's a way of organizing tasks in a way where you can use them from other playbooks and supply the configuration parameters for it. And yes, there are public roles for bringing up MySQL, here's one of the more popular: https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/mysql https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/mysql