Ansible managing inclusions
When working with complex or long playbooks, administrators can use separate files to divide tasks and lists of variables into smaller pieces for easier management. There are multiple ways to include task files and variables in a playbook.
Ansible Facts
Ansible facts are variables that are automatically discovered by Ansible from a managed host. Facts are pulled by the setup module and contain useful information stored into variables that administrators can reuse. Ansible facts can be part of playbooks, in conditionals, loops, or any other dynamic statement that depends on a value for a managed host
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Ansible Variables
Ansible supports variables that can be used to store values that can be reused throughout files in an entire Ansible project. This can help simplify creation and maintenance of a project and reduce the incidence of errors.
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Ansible Templates
Templates give the ability to provide a skeletal file that can be dynamically completed using variables