The significance of an Ansible task reporting that something has changed

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I have a task that checks if my process is listening on port 8080 and only when the exit code is not zero, would I run fail with a message.

When the service is running, it reports that the status has changed. I want it to say ok. What does a changed status actually mean in Ansible ?

Best Answer

Anything that is dependent on something on the target will get the status "changed" when executed, even if it's just a shell command to echo something.

To suppress the "changed" status, you can add the following line to the task:

changed_when: false

This and other relevant things are listed on this ansible doc page.

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