The developing-ansible-playbooks skill

This skill provides guidelines on how to develop Ansible playbooks that are compliant with project standards. Should be used when generating, modifying, or reviewing Ansible playbooks, roles, or collections.

Rule of thumb

If the Ansible playbook, role, or collection being developed has existing examples in the project repository, always refer to those examples and mimic their style and structure to ensure consistency.

If there are no existing examples in the project repository, refer to the following guidelines:

Task structure

The following structure should be followed for each task in the Ansible playbook: