Ansible: Test a task by applying it locally

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If you need to test a set of ansible tasks without having to go into much trouble, you can use ansible-playbook to do a quick local test. To do so you just need ansible installed and create a yaml file with the playbook to execute using the following format:

---
- hosts: 127.0.0.1
  tasks:
  - name: mkdir /tmp/test
    command: 
      cmd: mkdir -p /tmp/test

26/01/2021