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Make decisions

Users expect role authors to make decisions.  The role author is
supposed to be the expert who knows what choices to make on behalf of
the user.
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 Sovereign is an Ansible playbook that uses the modules in this repository to configure a server. Modules should conform to the following design principles.
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 Sovereign is an Ansible playbook that uses the modules in this repository to configure a server. Modules should conform to the following design principles.
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+A module exists to make decisions about how a service should be installed and configured. Make these decisions and minimize or eliminate configuration options exposed to the user. When in doubt, make a decision, and if the community feedback is vocal enough, only then expose an option.
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 ### Idempotency
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 ### Idempotency
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 A module must be idempotent. If it's run once or many times, the result should be the same. This means that in some cases the user will be left with post-installation finalization work to do. Post-install finalization should be reduced or eliminated if possible, but not at the cost of idempotency.
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 A module must be idempotent. If it's run once or many times, the result should be the same. This means that in some cases the user will be left with post-installation finalization work to do. Post-install finalization should be reduced or eliminated if possible, but not at the cost of idempotency.

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