Creating a new user and password with Ansible

Question

I have an ansible task which creates a new user on ubuntu 12.04;

- name: Add deployment user
    action: user name=deployer password=mypassword

Answer 1

This is the easy way:

---
- name: Create user
  user: name=user shell=/bin/bash home=/srv/user groups=admin,sudo generate_ssh_key=yes ssh_key_bits=2048
- name: Set password to user
  shell: echo user:plain_text_password | sudo chpasswd
  no_log: True