--- - name: Verify hosts: all gather_facts: true tasks: - name: Verify docker binary is present ansible.builtin.command: docker --version register: docker_version_output changed_when: false tags: [verify] - name: Assert docker --version succeeded ansible.builtin.assert: that: docker_version_output.rc == 0 msg: "docker --version failed — Docker was not installed correctly" tags: [verify]