--- - hosts: webservers vars: oldskool: "1.2.3" bracket: "and close bracket" tasks: - name: unset variable action: command echo {{thisvariable}} is not set in this playbook - name: trailing whitespace action: command echo do nothing - name: git check action: git a=b c=d - name: git check 2 action: git version=HEAD c=d - name: git check 3 git: version=a1b2c3d4 repo=xyz bobbins=d - name: executing git through command action: command git clone blah - name: executing git through command action: command chdir=bobbins creates=whatever /usr/bin/git clone blah - name: using git module action: git repo=blah - name: passing git as an argument to another task action: debug msg="{{item}}" with_items: - git - bobbins - name: yum latest yum: state=latest name=httpd - debug: msg="task without a name" - name: apt latest apt: state=latest name=apache2 - name: always run debug: msg="always_run is deprecated" always_run: true # empty task is currently accepted by ansible as valid code: -