How is management and updating of roles, which have been copied (forked) in Ansible, carried out?

When Ansible roles are copied or forked, managing and updating such roles is usually done manually, as they are separated from the original repository.

Main approaches:

• Maintaining your own fork: You can make changes to the copied role and maintain it separately, updating as necessary.

• Merging changes from the original repository: To update the role, you need to periodically compare changes in the original role and manually transfer them to the fork (e.g., via git merge or cherry-pick).

• Using git submodules or subtrees: If the role is connected as a submodule, you can update it through git by pulling changes from the original repository.

• Automating updates: You can set up CI/CD or scripts that will check for updates in the original role and automatically apply them to the fork with subsequent testing.

Thus, managing and updating forked roles requires version control and periodic merging of changes from the original either manually or using git tools.