--- - name: A second playbook run with fact caching enabled hosts: localhost tasks: - name: show ansible_foobar fact debug: var: ansible_foobar - name: assert ansible_foobar is correct value when read from cache assert: that: - ansible_foobar == 'blippy' - name: show ansible_foobar_not_cached fact debug: var: ansible_foobar_not_cached - name: assert ansible_foobar_not_cached is not cached assert: that: - ansible_foobar_not_cached is undefined