Ansible - Good and Bad Practices

A collection of good and bad Ansible code examples.

• Name your tasks
• Use Modules before run-commands
• Use native yaml syntax
• Use the copy-module or template-module instead of lineinfile-module
• Avoid unintended side effects when running playbooks
• Turn off gather_facts if not needed
• Prefix your variables

Contributing

If you want to contribute you can create a merge request so other colleagues will discuss the code with you. Make sure to add both a good and a bad practice to your code example.

Make sure that:

• your code won't contain credentials
• you've commented the code why it is a good or bad practice
• your code can be easily run, so please add a full playbook if possible
• be open to discuss with your colleagues