“If you’ve ever spent ages waiting for an Ansible playbook to get through a bunch of tasks so yours can be tested, then this article is for you.”
The first tip is a –step flag that asks before running every task. It ships with Ansible, and the author still had to go looking for it. Ansible debugging is mostly waiting and guessing which nested variable holds the IP address. A tool this widely used shouldn’t need a blog post to be bearable.