--- - name: Securing MariaDB hosts: db_servers become: yes tasks: - name: Assign password to MariaDB root user mysql_user: name: root host_all: yes update_password: always password: "{{ pw }}" - name: Authentication credentials copied to root home directory copy: src: files/my.cnf dest: /root/.my.cnf - name: Remove anonymous user accounts mysql_user: name: '' host_all: yes state: absent - name: Remove test database mysql_db: name: test state: absent