Ansible Conditionals

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Overview

Tasks can be conditionally executed based on facts, registered variables or playbook or inventory variables. The conditional is introduced by the task configuration keyword when:.

The variables must not be enclosed in Template:... when used in when: expressions.

- name: Download Amazon Corretto
  get_url:
    url: https://corretto.aws/downloads/latest/amazon-corretto-11-x64-macos-jdk.pkg
    dest: /tmp
  when: java_vendor == "Amazon"
- name: Install Nginx
    apt:
      pkg: nginx
      state: installed
      update_cache: true
    when: ppastable|success
    notify:
     - Start Nginx

Logical Operators

Parentheses can be used in expressions.

and

or

<

<=