Include tasks based on OS distribution

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Hi,

I have some roles that are specific for some OS family and I’m using the include keyword to include a file when ansible_os_family matches what I want.
The problem with this approach is that when is not the family I want it skips but at the end the user that runs this can think that everything was done.

I want to know what’s the best approach for this, thinking that I also need to tell the user (even fail the task in question) based on the OS being different that what it should be.

Thanks,
Bruno

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If you want to fail the assert module is a good candidate
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/assert_module.html

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Hi Kai,

Thanks for the answer, gonna give it a try.

Thanks,
Bruno