Implementing DevOps with Ansible 2

Multiline task parameters

Some Ansible tasks can have a bunch of parameters (so much so that the simplicity and readability of the task become ambiguous). The YAML implementation has also matured in such a way as to support parameters across multiple lines for better readability. This is specifically a scalar folded approach that is available within the YAML language directly. Let's take a look at an example provided by the YAML creators to understand how line folding works in YAML:

# Multiple-line strings can be written either as a 'literal block' (using |),
# or a 'folded block' (using '>').
literal_block: |
    This entire block of text will be the value of the 'literal_block' key,
    with line breaks being preserved.

    The literal continues until ...