In this post, we are going to see how to use conditional statements of Ansible such as when, changed_when, failed_when and where to use them appropriately and how it works. By these conditional modules, Ansible provides a way for us to define when should ansible run a certain task or consider the executed task as Success or failure.

In the following playbook, we have used a when statement and a command to execute. The Command will only execute when the defined condition is satisfied, which is exactly when the Operating system of the host is Debian




Ansible Playbook Example-1