diff --git a/ansible/playbook.yml b/ansible/playbook.yml
index a4bf947..d0763e8 100644
--- a/ansible/playbook.yml
+++ b/ansible/playbook.yml
@@ -7,5 +7,4 @@
   roles:
     - os
     - firstboot
-    - appliance
-    - metacluster
+    - assets
diff --git a/ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/main.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 97a5cc2..0000000
--- a/ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/main.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-- name: Install & configure dependencies
-  import_tasks: dependencies.yml
diff --git a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/containerimages.yml
similarity index 81%
rename from ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml
rename to ansible/roles/assets/tasks/containerimages.yml
index 4648328..311e609 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/components.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/containerimages.yml
@@ -1,36 +1,3 @@
-- name: Create folder structure(s)
-  ansible.builtin.file:
-    path: "{{ item }}"
-    state: directory
-  loop:
-    - /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
-    - /opt/metacluster/manifests/bootstrap-kubeadm/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}
-    - /opt/metacluster/manifests/cert-manager/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.cert_manager }}
-    - /opt/metacluster/manifests/cluster-api/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}
-    - /opt/metacluster/manifests/control-plane-kubeadm/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}
-    - /opt/metacluster/manifests/infrastructure-vsphere/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}
-    - /opt/metacluster/container-images
-
-- name: Add helm repositories
-  kubernetes.core.helm_repository:
-    name: "{{ item.name }}"
-    repo_url: "{{ item.url }}"
-    state: present
-  loop: "{{ platform.helm_repositories }}"
-
-- name: Fetch helm charts
-  ansible.builtin.command:
-    cmd: helm fetch {{ item.value.helm.chart }} --untar --version {{ item.value.helm.version }}
-    chdir: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
-  when: item.value.helm is defined
-  register: helmcharts
-  loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
-  loop_control:
-    label: "{{ item.key }}"
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 5
-  until: helmcharts is not failed
-
 - block:
 
     - name: Aggregate chart_values into dict
@@ -51,7 +18,7 @@
     - name: Download ClusterAPI manifests
       ansible.builtin.get_url:
         url: "{{ item.url }}"
-        dest: /opt/metacluster/manifests/{{ item.dest }}
+        dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/{{ item.dest }}
       register: clusterapi_manifests
       loop:
         # This list is based on `clusterctl config repositories`
diff --git a/ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/dependencies.archive_compressed.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/dependencies.archive_compressed.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/dependencies.archive_compressed.yml
rename to ansible/roles/assets/tasks/dependencies.archive_compressed.yml
diff --git a/ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/dependencies.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/dependencies.yml
similarity index 91%
rename from ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/dependencies.yml
rename to ansible/roles/assets/tasks/dependencies.yml
index dee2ce2..cd36247 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/appliance/tasks/dependencies.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/dependencies.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-# - name: Create folder structure(s)
-#  ansible.builtin.file:
-#    path: "{{ item }}"
-#    state: directory
-#  loop:
-#    - /foo
-
 - name: Download & install static binaries
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
     url: "{{ item.url }}"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/git.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/git.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4d2f8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/git.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+- name: Clone git repository
+  ansible.builtin.git:
+    repo: "{{ platform.gitops.repository.uri }}"
+    version: "{{ platform.gitops.repository.revision }}"
+    dest: /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
diff --git a/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/helm.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/helm.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f03d073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/helm.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+- name: Add helm repositories
+  kubernetes.core.helm_repository:
+    name: "{{ item.name }}"
+    repo_url: "{{ item.url }}"
+    state: present
+  loop: "{{ platform.helm_repositories }}"
+
+- name: Fetch helm charts
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: helm fetch {{ item.value.helm.chart }} --untar --version {{ item.value.helm.version }}
+    chdir: /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
+  when: item.value.helm is defined
+  register: helmcharts
+  loop: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.dict', components) }}"
+  loop_control:
+    label: "{{ item.key }}"
+  retries: 5
+  delay: 5
+  until: helmcharts is not failed
diff --git a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/k3s.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/k3s.yml
similarity index 83%
rename from ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/k3s.yml
rename to ansible/roles/assets/tasks/k3s.yml
index 2c5d606..06ff1bf 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/k3s.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/k3s.yml
@@ -1,11 +1,3 @@
-- name: Create folder structure(s)
-  ansible.builtin.file:
-    path: "{{ item }}"
-    state: directory
-  loop:
-    - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/images
-    - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests
-    - /opt/metacluster/k3s
 
 - name: Download & install K3s binary
   ansible.builtin.get_url:
diff --git a/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b72dfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+- name: Create folder structure(s)
+  ansible.builtin.file:
+    path: "{{ item }}"
+    state: directory
+  loop:
+    - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/bootstrap-kubeadm/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}
+    - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/cert-manager/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.cert_manager }}
+    - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/cluster-api/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}
+    - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/control-plane-kubeadm/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.base }}
+    - /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/infrastructure-vsphere/{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }}
+    - /opt/metacluster/container-images
+    - /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
+    - /opt/metacluster/helm-charts
+    - /opt/metacluster/k3s
+    - /opt/workloadcluster/node-templates
+    - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/agent/images
+    - /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests
+
+- import_tasks: dependencies.yml
+- import_tasks: k3s.yml
+- import_tasks: helm.yml
+- import_tasks: git
+- import_tasks: containerimages.yml
+- import_tasks: nodetemplates.yml
diff --git a/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/nodetemplates.yml b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/nodetemplates.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53119b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/assets/tasks/nodetemplates.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+- name: Download node-template image
+  ansible.builtin.uri:
+    url: "{{ components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.url }}"
+    dest: /opt/workloadcluster/node-templates/{{ components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.name }}
diff --git a/ansible/roles/metacluster/templates/helmchartconfig.j2 b/ansible/roles/assets/templates/helmchartconfig.j2
similarity index 100%
rename from ansible/roles/metacluster/templates/helmchartconfig.j2
rename to ansible/roles/assets/templates/helmchartconfig.j2
diff --git a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml
index 14d9b41..456ad31 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 - name: Configure clusterctl
   ansible.builtin.template:
     src: clusterctl.j2
-    dest: /opt/metacluster/manifests/clusterctl.yaml
+    dest: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml
   vars:
     _template:
       version:
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@
 - name: Initialize Cluster API management cluster
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     cmd: clusterctl init -v5 -i vsphere:{{ components.clusterapi.management.version.infrastructure_vsphere }} --config ./clusterctl.yaml --kubeconfig {{ kubeconfig.path }}
-    chdir: /opt/metacluster/manifests
+    chdir: /opt/metacluster/cluster-api
diff --git a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/main.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fbad2e..0000000
--- a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/main.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-- name: Pre-stage K3s components
-  import_tasks: k3s.yml
-
-- name: Pre-stage meta-cluster components
-  import_tasks: components.yml
-
-- name: Pre-stage meta-cluster configuration and workload-cluster components
-  import_tasks: staging.yml
diff --git a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/staging.yml b/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/staging.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c56141e..0000000
--- a/ansible/roles/metacluster/tasks/staging.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-- name: Create folder structure(s)
-  ansible.builtin.file:
-    path: "{{ item }}"
-    state: directory
-  loop:
-    - /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
-    - /opt/workloadcluster/node-templates
-
-- name: Clone git repository
-  ansible.builtin.git:
-    repo: "{{ platform.gitops.repository.uri }}"
-    version: "{{ platform.gitops.repository.revision }}"
-    dest: /opt/metacluster/git-repositories/gitops
-
-- name: Download node-template image
-  ansible.builtin.uri:
-    url: "{{ components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.url }}"
-    dest: /opt/workloadcluster/node-templates/{{ components.clusterapi.workload.node_template.name }}