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Boolean values

Mixing true, false, yes, no, and their cases

That works but just don't, makes playbooks very hard to read

Value What can represent it in Ansible?
True Boolean True, case-insensitive: True, true
Special yes value, case-insensitive: Yes, yes
Positive numbers: 1, 2, 8472365, etc.
Non-empty strings: 'test', "0", 'Ansible', etc.
False Boolean False, case-insensitive: False, false
Special no value, case-insensitive: No, no
0 and negative numbers: 0, -1, -8472365, etc.
Empty strings: '', ""