--- - name: Prepare hosts: loadbalancer tasks: - name: Ensure apt cache is updated ansible.builtin.apt: update_cache: true when: ansible_pkg_mgr == 'apt' - name: Ensure HAProxy is installed ansible.builtin.package: name: haproxy state: present - name: Ensure HAProxy config directory exists ansible.builtin.file: path: /usr/local/etc/haproxy state: directory mode: 0755 - name: Ensure HAProxy is configured ansible.builtin.template: src: haproxy-loadbalancer.conf.j2 dest: /usr/local/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg mode: 0644 - name: Ensure HAProxy service is started command: haproxy -D -f /usr/local/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -p /var/run/haproxy.pid args: creates: /var/run/haproxy.pid