adminusers.yml

admins: 
    - name: username1
      pass: <redacted>
      
    - name: username2
      pass: <redacted>
      home: "elephant"   <-- means you'll get HOMEROOT/elephant rather that HOMEROOT/username2

group_vars_all.yml

---
home_root: /home

host_vars_exception.yml

---
# homedirs on host THISHOST are somewhere non-standard
home_root: /users/homes

userplay.yml

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - include_vars: "variables/adminusers.yml"
  - include_vars: "variables/delusers.yml"
  
  - name: Remove users
    user:
      name: "{{ item.name }}"
#      uid: "{{ item.uid }}"
      state: absent
      remove: yes
    with_items: "{{ delusers }}"
  
  - name: Create admin users
    user:
      name: "{{ item.name }}"
      password: "{{ item.pass }}"
      uid: "{{ item.uid }}"
      group: users
      shell: "{{ item.shell }}"
      state: present
      groups: sudo
      home: "{{ home_root|default('/home') }}/{{ item.home|default(item.name) }}"
      createhome: yes
    with_items: "{{ admins }}"
    
  - name: Add SSH keys
    authorized_key:
      user: "{{ item.0.name }}"
      state: present
      manage_dir: yes
      key: "{{ item.1 }}"
    with_subelements:
        - "{{ admins }}"
        - authorized_keys