ansible Introduction to playbooks Play's structure
Example
Here’s a simple play:
- name: Configure webserver with git
hosts: webserver
become: true
vars:
package: git
tasks:
- name: install git
apt: name={{ package }} state=present
As we said earlier, every play must contain:
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A set of hosts to configure
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A list of tasks to be executed on those hosts
Think of a play as the thing that connects hosts to tasks. In addition to specifying hosts and tasks, plays also support a number of optional settings. Two common ones are:
name: a comment that describes what the play is about. Ansible will print this out when the play starts to runvars: a list of variables and values
