How can you verfiy/check/validate your Ansible playbooks?

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Ansible playbooks can be verified/validated using various tools and techniques.

Use Ansible's built-in syntax checker 'ansible-playbook --syntax-check'
Use Ansible's 'ansible-lint' tool to check for best practices and potential issues
Use 'ansible-playbook --check' to simulate playbook execution without making changes
Use 'ansible-playbook --diff' to show the differences between the current and desired state
Use 'ansible-playbook --start-at-task=' to start playbook execution from a specific task
Use 'ansible-playbook --step' to execute playbook tasks interactively
Use 'ansible-playbook --tags=' to execute specific tasks with matching tags
Use 'ansible-playbook --skip-tags=' to skip tasks with matching tags
Use 'ansible-playbook --list-tasks' to list all tasks in a playbook
Use 'ansible-playbook --list-hosts' to list all hosts in a playbook
Use 'ansible-playbook --list-tags' to list all tags in a playbook

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