Fix Idempotency and Dry-Run Issues in a Playbook

Problem/Feature Description

A reliability engineering team has a playbook that configures application servers. The team recently adopted a policy requiring all playbooks to pass a dry-run check before any production deployment. During code review, a senior engineer flagged that the dry-run results were not giving enough visibility into what would actually change, and that some tasks were always reporting as "changed" even during repeated runs on already-configured hosts.

You have been asked to:

1. Audit the playbook for idempotency issues and document the findings
2. Produce a fixed version of the playbook that resolves the identified issues
3. Document the dry-run command that should be used going forward

Output Specification

Produce:

• audit_report.md: Findings from the ansible-lint pass, with explanations of each issue
• fixed_playbook.yml: A corrected version of the playbook
• The audit_report.md should also include the exact dry-run command the team should use

Input Files

The following files are provided as inputs. Extract them before beginning.

=============== FILE: playbooks/configure_app.yml ===============

• name: Configure application servers hosts: appservers become: yes

  tasks:

  • name: Create application directory file: path: /opt/myapp state: directory owner: appuser group: appuser

  • name: Check if config exists command: test -f /opt/myapp/config.yml

  • name: Get current app version command: /opt/myapp/bin/app --version register: current_version

  • name: Check disk space shell: df -h /opt/myapp | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' register: disk_usage

  • name: Apply database migrations command: /opt/myapp/bin/app migrate when: current_version.rc == 0

  • name: Reload app configuration command: /opt/myapp/bin/app reload-config register: reload_result

  • name: Verify app is running command: pgrep -x app

=============== FILE: inventory/appservers.ini =============== [appservers] app01.internal app02.internal