Indicating differences between files using --diff

In the check mode, you can use the --diff option to show the changes that would be applied to a file. To be able to see the --diff option in use, we need to create a playbooks/setup_and_config_apache.yaml playbook to match the following:

- hosts: all
  tasks: 
    - name: Install Apache 
      yum: 
        name: httpd 
        state: present 
      become: True
    - name: Enable Apache 
      service: 
        name: httpd 
        state: started 
        enabled: True 
      become: True
    - name: Ensure Apache userdirs are properly configured
      template:
        src: ../templates/userdir.conf
        dest: /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf
      become: True

As you can see, we added a task that will ensure a certain state of the /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf file.

We also need to create a template file placed in templates/userdir.conf with...