assert and fail. When to use what?

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Hi,

I’ve been working on a playbook that asserts prerequisites required for a mssql installation and I’m not entirely confident with what I’ve come up with.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/chopraaa/1b74480a7b286ee91dd855ae670104f1/raw/660b758b4e82e0b689999e6fe73946d005cfcac9/mssql.yml

What I know is that if an assert is false, it fails the playbook, and the same can be done using the fail module. So what’s the difference between the two?

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Not much, they are mostly a 'contrary alias', I would be happy
deprecating one of them in favor of the other.