Check if service exists with Ansible

Question

I have an Ansible playbook for deploying a Java app as an init.d daemon.

Being a beginner in both Ansible and Linux I\'m having trouble to conditionally execute task

Answer 1

Another approach for systemd (from Jakuje):

- name: Check if cups-browsed service exists
  command: systemctl cat cups-browsed
  check_mode: no
  register: cups_browsed_exists
  changed_when: False
  failed_when: cups_browsed_exists.rc not in [0, 1]

- name: Stop cups-browsed service
  systemd:
    name: cups-browsed
    state: stopped 
  when: cups_browsed_exists.rc == 0