Making httpd services non-idempotent

Task Description:

Restarting HTTPD Service is not idempotence in nature and also consume more resources suggest a way to rectify this challenge in Ansible playbook

Whenever we run ansible playbook without changing conf settings or some changes it will automatically start httpd services because we have given key value as restarted so it consumes more resources although we haven’t done any changes

So here to make these services not idempotence I am gonna use when keyword

Here is my ansible playbook code

- hosts: all
  vars:
    - dvd_dir: "/dvd1"
    
  tasks:
    - file:
        state: directory
        path: "{{ dvd_dir }}"
    - mount:
        src: "/dev/cdrom"
        path: "{{ dvd_dir }}"
        state: mounted
        fstype: iso9660
        
    - yum_repository:
        baseurl: "{{ dvd_dir }}/AppStream"
        name: "dvd1"
        gpgcheck: no
        description: "Yum repo 1"
    - yum_repository:
        baseurl: "{{ dvd_dir }}/BaseOS"
        name: "dvd2"
        gpgcheck: no
        description: "Yum repo 2"
    - package:
           name: "httpd"
           state: present
    - copy:
            dest: /var/www/html/index.html
      register: result
    - copy:
          src: /home/kanav/t.conf
          dest: /etc/httpd/conf.d
    - service:
            name: "httpd"
            state: restarted
      when: result.changed

At first execution attempt it restarts services because we are uploading conf file for first time

After first execution of playbook if we run playbook without any changes it will not restart services