Comparing two hosts with ansible (installed packages and configuration files)

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How can I use ansible to check out the software differences (installed packages and configuration files) between two debian hosts?

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Collect the list of installed packages with "package_facts"
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/package_facts_module.html#package-facts-package-information-as-facts
and use "Set theory filters" to find the differences
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/user_guide/playbooks_filters.html#set-theory-filters

For example the playbook below shall list the packages installed in
host1 but missing in host2

  - hosts: host1:host2
    tasks:
      - package_facts:
      - debug:
          msg: "{{ hostvars.host1.ansible_facts.packages|
                   difference(hostvars.host2.ansible_facts.packages) }}"
        run_once: true

HTH,

  -vlado

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Thank you very much for your answer.