Try a dry run with —check on a remote host (—limit $HOST). I forgot, —check 
does a dry run. 

Mike

> On Sep 7, 2022, at 10:36, Steve Button <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to add some "shift left" to my Ansible, so that mistakes don't 
> creep in. Firstly, I thought I would run --check (perhaps as a git pre-commit 
> hook or perhaps in Jenkins pipeline eventually). So, I tried it locally. 
> Unfortunately it bombs out in several places, as some tasks are reliant on 
> the output of other tasks. Not a great problem, as I've added 
> 
> when: not ansible_check_mode
> 
> to those tasks. 
> 
> Is there a better way of achieving this? Particularly it would be useful to 
> check that variables are set to something sensible (catch typos or just 
> missed variables) BEFORE it goes into production. We have vars files based on 
> environments, so these don't get checked until we actually deploy to that 
> environment. 
> 
> 
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