Understanding Ansible playbook using diagram

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false

  vars:
    - a_var: derp

  pre_tasks:
    - name: pretask
      debug: msg="a pre task"
      changed_when: true
      notify: say hi

  roles:
    - role: simple
      derp: newval

  tasks:
    - name: task
      debug: msg="a task"
      changed_when: true
      notify: say hi

  post_tasks:
    - name: posttask
      debug: msg="a post task"
      changed_when: true
      notify: say hiCode language: JavaScript (javascript)

Example Playbook Code

---
- name: Update web servers
  hosts: web

  tasks:
  - name: Install Apache in centos7
    ansible.builtin.yum:
      name: httpd
      state: latest
  - name: Copy index.html
    ansible.builtin.copy:
      src: index.html
      dest: /var/www/html/index.html
  - name: Starting a Apache Server
    ansible.builtin.service:
      name: httpd
      state: started
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

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