Ansible is very flexible and I’m quite sure it is possible with conditionals. Happy to take a PR although I don’t want to overcomplicate what is a very simple playbook.
Overall I’m just looking for a playbook that suits my personal needs and I thought I’d share it with the rest of the Discourse community in case it helped anyone.
Maybe we could pool our ideas and make a suite of Ansible tools for managing and provisioning Discourses using Ansible (which seems to me the most lightweight tool for this purpose) which includes a variety of playbooks