do the same action(ppa adding) using with_items

playbooks/roles/common/tasks/main.yml

@@ -21,17 +21,15 @@
     keyserver: "{{ COMMON_EDX_PPA_KEY_SERVER }}"
     state: "present"
 
-# Ensure that we get a current version of Git
+# Ensure that we get a current version of Git and latest version of python 2.7
 # GitHub requires version 1.7.10 or later
 # https://help.github.com/articles/https-cloning-errors
 - name: Add git apt repository
   apt_repository:
-    repo: "{{ common_git_ppa }}"
-
-# We use this PPA to get the latest version of python 2.7
-- name: Add edx apt repository
-  apt_repository:
-    repo: "{{ COMMON_EDX_PPA }}"
+    repo: "{{ item }}"
+  with_items:
+    - "{{ common_git_ppa }}"
+    - "{{ COMMON_EDX_PPA }}"
 
 - name: Install role-independent useful system packages
   # do this before log dir setup; rsyslog package guarantees syslog user present
@@ -102,6 +100,8 @@
   # TODO: restarts no matter which template has changed, need to examine
   # the results
 - name: restart rsyslogd
-  service: name=rsyslog state=restarted
+  service: 
+    name: rsyslog 
+    state: restarted
   sudo: True
   when: config_templates.changed