Normalize user-facing defaults

roles/configuration/tasks/locales.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 - name: Setup locales
   block:
     - name: Configure locale.gen
-      when: not is_rhel | default(false)
+      when: not is_rhel | bool
       ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
         dest: /mnt/etc/locale.gen
         regexp: "{{ item.regex }}"
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
         - {regex: en_US\.UTF-8 UTF-8, line: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8}
 
     - name: Generate locales
-      when: not is_rhel | default(false)
+      when: not is_rhel | bool
       ansible.builtin.command: arch-chroot /mnt /usr/sbin/locale-gen
       register: configuration_locale_result
       changed_when: configuration_locale_result.rc == 0
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
             if '.' in hostname
             else (
               hostname + '.' + vm_dns_search
-              if vm_dns_search is defined and vm_dns_search | length
+              if vm_dns_search | length
               else hostname
             )
           }}
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
             if '.' in hostname
             else (
               hostname + '.' + vm_dns_search
-              if vm_dns_search is defined and vm_dns_search | length
+              if vm_dns_search | length
               else hostname
             )
           }}
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
         configuration_hostname_entries: >-
           {{ [configuration_hostname_fqdn, configuration_hostname_short] | unique | join(' ') }}
         configuration_hosts_line: >-
-          {{ vm_ip | default(inventory_hostname) }}    {{ configuration_hostname_entries }}
+          {{ (vm_ip if vm_ip | length > 0 else inventory_hostname) }}    {{ configuration_hostname_entries }}
       ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
         path: /mnt/etc/hosts
         line: "{{ configuration_hosts_line }}"