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Ansible playbook to install Visual Studio code on Ubuntu/Debian

This will install the most recent version of VS code from the official website.

If VS code is already installed, it will do nothing at all.

- name: Install Visual Studio Code
  hosts: all
  become: true
  tasks:
    - name: Check if VS Code is installed
      command: dpkg-query -W code
      register: is_installed
      failed_when: false
      changed_when: false

    - name: Download VS Code deb package
      get_url:
        url: https://code.visualstudio.com/sha/download?build=stable&os=linux-deb-x64
        dest: /tmp/vscode.deb
      when: is_installed.rc != 0

    - name: Install VS Code package
      apt:
        deb: /tmp/vscode.deb
        state: present
      when: is_installed.rc != 0

    - name: Clean up downloaded deb
      file:
        path: /tmp/vscode.deb
        state: absent
      when: is_installed.rc != 0

Use like this:

ansible-playbook -i vscode.yaml