Ansible is an incredible configuration management and provisioning utility that enables you to automate all the things. In this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to use Ansible for your day-to-day administration duties. In video #7, we take a look at differentiating our playbook.

install_apache.yml

 ---
 
 - hosts: all
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: update repository index
     apt:
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: install apache2 package
     apt:
       name: apache2
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: add php support for apache
     apt:
       name: libapache2-mod-php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"

Gather facts, while limiting to a single host

 ansible all -m gather_facts --limit 172.16.250.248

install_apache.yml (updated to include centos)

 ---
 
 - hosts: all
   become: true
   tasks:
 
   - name: update repository index
     apt:
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: install apache2 package
     apt:
       name: apache2
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: add php support for apache
     apt:
       name: libapache2-mod-php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "Ubuntu"
 
   - name: update repository index
     dnf:
       update_cache: yes
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: install httpd package
     dnf:
       name: httpd
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"
 
   - name: add php support for apache
     dnf:
       name: php
       state: latest
     when: ansible_distribution == "CentOS"