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I have finally come to realise where my issues have been with Ansible. I was trying to create a single mono-playbook which would run tasks across multiple servers (only two in my case), but it would cause a number of issues

Firstly a mono-playbook is difficult to understand and edit, obviously, but it also meant the output was also difficult to read. If the summary at the end said anything had changed, I would need to read everything to understand what exactly. Not easy with 100s of tasks.

By having entirely separate playbooks for the different realms of repeatability, I have massively improved my ability to read and understand my code. My containers runbook has a role for installing a single container, but that role is repeated multiple times to install everything I need to run