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Ansible Playbook Example

deployweb

Ansible Playbook Example is an example object payload from Ansible, with 10 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

namehostsbecomebecome_usergather_factsvarsrolestaskshandlerstags

Example Payload

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{
  "name": "Deploy Web Application",
  "hosts": "web-servers",
  "become": true,
  "become_user": "root",
  "gather_facts": true,
  "vars": {
    "app_version": "2.4.1",
    "deploy_user": "deploy"
  },
  "roles": ["nginx", "app-deploy"],
  "tasks": [
    {
      "name": "Install Nginx",
      "module": "ansible.builtin.package",
      "when": "ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'",
      "tags": ["install", "nginx"],
      "notify": "restart nginx"
    }
  ],
  "handlers": [
    {
      "name": "restart nginx",
      "module": "ansible.builtin.service"
    }
  ],
  "tags": ["deploy", "web"]
}

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