intermediate~4h
Playbooks and Tasks
How playbooks organize plays and tasks, the modules you'll reach for most, and how idempotency shows up in a real playbook's output.
Learning objectives
- Describe the play -> task -> module hierarchy of a playbook
- Use common modules: package managers, copy, template, service
- Write a playbook that idempotently provisions a web server
- Read ansible-playbook output to distinguish ok/changed/failed
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Playbooks and Tasks