Puppet has r10k. The ansible toolchain is lacking some convenient way to manage and deploy roles - in a defined version.
In case you search something to tackle this gap this repo might be helpful.
First put your inventory and config in configs/ as well as the repos you want to pull. The execute the "ansible-r10k" run via:
Fetch your configured dependencies. This should provide you with a valid ansible setup:
make dependencies
************ loading dependencies
PLAY [localhost] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [set_fact] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost -> localhost]
TASK [manage local directories] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'inventories', 'state': 'absent'})
changed: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'roles', 'state': 'absent'})
changed: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'runtime', 'state': 'absent'})
changed: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'runtime', 'state': 'directory'})
changed: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'roles', 'state': 'directory'})
changed: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'inventories', 'state': 'directory'})
ok: [localhost -> localhost] => (item={'path': 'artefacts', 'state': 'directory'})
(...)Run it:
make release