If a specific playbook specifies three tasks, what is the total number that will be executed?

If an Ansible playbook specifies three tasks, then all three tasks will be executed sequentially when running the playbook, meaning the total number of executed tasks is three.

Each task is a separate step that Ansible performs on target hosts. If the playbook contains multiple hosts, each task will be executed on each of them, but the number of tasks in the playbook remains three.

Example:

- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Install package
      apt:
        name: nginx
        state: present

    - name: Start service
      service:
        name: nginx
        state: started

    - name: Check status
      command: systemctl status nginx