Hi, 

I'm trying to understand how Ansible's "idempotency" is achieved for e.g. 
apt-get updates.

For example: suppose I have X servers, fully provisioned some time ago, and 
now want to scale up to X+Y servers. The playbook includes an appeal to 
apt-get to update the packages. I add the Y servers to my inventory, and 
run ansible. Will the original X servers, with potentially outdated 
packages, be updated? Or will they now be out of sync with the new Y 
servers?

My understanding would be the latter: that running the same playbook on the 
original servers would leave them unchanged. This would be consistent with 
the notion of idempotency, but might not be the desired 'outcome'..

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