Typically your playbooks are more specific then 'do something vague' for example, install apache. You would say specifically, using 'apt' install the package '

Typically your playbooks are more specific then 'do something vague' for example, install apache. You would say specifically, using 'apt' install the package 'httpd'. To see the package managers Ansible supports OOTB look at: http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#packaging http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#packaging For examples on how this can be abstracted to handle multiple platforms see: http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/bestpractices.html/#operating-system-and-distribution-variance http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/bestpractices.html/#operati...