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That's a great point. I initially didn't have comments for any of those code sections. However, most of my reviewers encouraged me to add the comments so it would be clearer what each step was doing for beginners.

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In that case, you can use YAML comments rather than ansible names. It makes it much more clear that it's optional, and you get the actual code in the log rather than the name/comment.

Ansible actually encourages the use of the names because they show up as task headers.

These are especially valuable when managing a large number of hosts.

That's exactly why I actively discourage the use of names. I'd much rather see "apt: pkg=foo" than "Ensure foo is installed" in my logs. Especially when I have a large number of hosts.

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