diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 809221244..04727cdb2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ If Jenkins detects that your commit broke something it will turn red.
 You can then check the logs of the Jenkins by clicking on "Testing Playbooks" button in your PR and go to "Console Output".
 You can now submit a new commit/change that will update the CI system to run a new play.
 
-It might happen that the CI does not get reloead so you can simply leave a comment on your PR with "test this please" and it will trigger a new CI build.
+It might happen that the CI does not get reloaded so you can simply leave a comment on your PR with "test this please" and it will trigger a new CI build.
 
 ## Vagrant Demo
 
diff --git a/contrib/splitup.yml b/contrib/splitup.yml
index ecaa14835..fb6415b18 100644
--- a/contrib/splitup.yml
+++ b/contrib/splitup.yml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
         msg: 'github prefix missing! e.g: (--extra-vars github=ceph/ansible).'
       when: github == False
 
-    - name: split the repo in seperate branches
+    - name: split the repo in separate branches
       tags: split
       command: git subtree split --prefix=roles/{{ item }} -b {{ item }} --squash
       args:
diff --git a/localrepo-site.yml.sample b/localrepo-site.yml.sample
index 5984852d0..ce7d6755c 100644
--- a/localrepo-site.yml.sample
+++ b/localrepo-site.yml.sample
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # Sample Playbook for local mirrors.
-# Additional/optiona step to generate repos.d file for local mirrors.
+# Additional/optional step to generate repos.d file for local mirrors.
 # Defines deployment design and assigns role to server groups
 
 - hosts: all 
diff --git a/roles/ceph-common-coreos/README.md b/roles/ceph-common-coreos/README.md
index 8574a6f2d..b341a29b2 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-common-coreos/README.md
+++ b/roles/ceph-common-coreos/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ None.
 
 # Dependencies
 
-New CoreOS releases support pypy in version 2.4 and above. Unfortunetly CoreOS stable channel
+New CoreOS releases support pypy in version 2.4 and above. Unfortunately CoreOS stable channel
 has to be used with pypy in version 2.4 and below due to some dependency issues.
 
 # Example Playbook
diff --git a/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml b/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
index 9163b3095..dd94e5e9f 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
+++ b/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   register: ceph_version
 
 - set_fact:
-    after_hamer=True
+    after_hammer=True
   when:
     ceph_version.stdout not in ['firefly','giant', 'hammer']
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   with_items:
     - /etc/ceph/
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-mds
-  when: not after_hamer
+  when: not after_hammer
 
 - name: create bootstrap directories (after hammer)
   file:
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@
   with_items:
     - /etc/ceph/
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-mds
-  when: after_hamer
+  when: after_hammer
diff --git a/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/start_docker_mds.yml b/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/start_docker_mds.yml
index 735529ff6..c0ee32fa8 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/start_docker_mds.yml
+++ b/roles/ceph-mds/tasks/docker/start_docker_mds.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-- name: run the ceph medata docker image
+- name: run the ceph metadata docker image
   docker:
     image: "{{ ceph_mds_docker_username }}/{{ ceph_mds_docker_imagename }}"
     name: ceph-{{ ansible_hostname }}-mds
diff --git a/roles/ceph-mon/tasks/ceph_keys.yml b/roles/ceph-mon/tasks/ceph_keys.yml
index 36f5ab499..6c1c659a9 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-mon/tasks/ceph_keys.yml
+++ b/roles/ceph-mon/tasks/ceph_keys.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # NOTE (leseb): wait for mon discovery and quorum resolution
-# the admin key is not instantanely created so we have to wait a bit
+# the admin key is not instantaneously created so we have to wait a bit
 - name: wait for client.admin key exists
   wait_for:
     path: /etc/ceph/{{ cluster }}.client.admin.keyring
diff --git a/roles/ceph-restapi/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml b/roles/ceph-restapi/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
index c1425caea..b827deecf 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-restapi/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
+++ b/roles/ceph-restapi/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   register: ceph_version
 
 - set_fact:
-    after_hamer=True
+    after_hammer=True
   when:
     ceph_version.stdout not in ['firefly','giant', 'hammer']
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-osd
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-mds
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-rgw
-  when: not after_hamer
+  when: not after_hammer
 
 - name: create bootstrap directories (after hammer)
   file:
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-osd
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-mds
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-rgw
-  when: after_hamer
+  when: after_hammer
diff --git a/roles/ceph-rgw/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml b/roles/ceph-rgw/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
index c5e325446..7973981d0 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-rgw/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
+++ b/roles/ceph-rgw/tasks/docker/dirs_permissions.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   register: ceph_version
 
 - set_fact:
-    after_hamer=True
+    after_hammer=True
   when:
     ceph_version.stdout not in ['firefly','giant', 'hammer']
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   with_items:
     - /etc/ceph/
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-rgw
-  when: not after_hamer
+  when: not after_hammer
 
 - name: create bootstrap directories (after hammer)
   file:
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@
   with_items:
     - /etc/ceph/
     - /var/lib/ceph/bootstrap-rgw
-  when: after_hamer
+  when: after_hammer