Many ansible collection have a long time been reliant on defining tokens and host URLs for each task. As an example with the NetBox Ansible collection:
netbox.netbox.netbox_device:
netbox_url: https://demo.netbox.dev
netbox_token: f4269827cde2eec3ae24b520689f4531d2a7d9b9
data:
name: Device One
device_role: Firewall
device_type: ISR 4331
site: Main DC
state: present
With multiple tasks in your playbook using these modules the amount of code grows steadily. It feels redundant having to specify these parameters on every task. From the Ansible collection 3.8.0 you can now use module default groups. It works like this:
module_defaults:
group/netbox.netbox.netbox:
netbox_url: https://demo.netbox.dev
netbox_token: f4269827cde2eec3ae24b520689f4531d2a7d9b9
tasks:
netbox.netbox.netbox_device:
data:
name: Device One
device_role: Firewall
device_type: ISR 4331
site: Main DC
state: present
The feature is available from Ansible 2.12, and should save you some time and avoid repetition in your code.