Ansible playbook for deploying a Node.js app to DigitalOcean

main.yaml

- name: DO
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    project_name: "PUT A NAME FOR YOUR PROJECT HERE"
    do_token: "PUT YOUR DIGITAL OCEAN API KEY HERE ==> https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens"
    repository: "PUT YOUR REPOSITORY URL HERE"

    - name: NODE | Clone/Pull repo
      git:
        repo: "{{repository}}"
        dest: /var/www
      register: git_finished

    - name: NODE | Install npm deps
      shell: npm i
      register: npm_finished
      failed_when: '"ERR!" in npm_finished.stderr'
      when: git_finished.changed
      args:
        chdir: /var/www

    - name: NODE | Install pm2
      npm:
        name: pm2
        global: yes
        production: yes
        state: present

    - name: NODE | Stop APP
      shell: pm2 stop app
      args:
        chdir: /var/www
      ignore_errors: yes

    - name: NODE | Start APP
      shell: pm2 start server.js --name server
      args:
        chdir: /var/www
      ignore_errors: yes
      when: npm_finished.changed