diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/main.yml
index 809cc1251..c73574aa5 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/tasks/main.yml
@@ -62,14 +62,23 @@
 - name: "Execute `dmesg` to collect debugging output should VM creation fail."
   command: dmesg
   when: task_create_vm_nodes.rc != 0
-- name: "Execute `virsh capabilities` to collect debugging output should VM creation fail."
+- name: >
+    "Execute `virsh capabilities` to collect debugging output
+    should VM creation fail."
   command: virsh capabilities
   when: task_create_vm_nodes.rc != 0
 - name: "Abort due to failed VM creation"
-  fail: msg="VM creation step failed, please review dmesg output for additional details"
+  fail: >
+    msg="VM creation step failed, please review dmesg
+    output for additional details"
   when: task_create_vm_nodes.rc != 0
-- name: "Set file permissions such that the baremetal csv file at /tmp/baremetal.csv can be read by the user executing Ansible"
+- name: >
+    "Set file permissions such that the baremetal csv file at /tmp/baremetal.csv
+    can be read by the user executing Ansible"
   file:
     path: "{{baremetal_csv_file}}"
     owner: "{{ansible_env.SUDO_USER}}"
-  when: ansible_env.SUDO_USER is defined and baremetal_csv_file is defined and baremetal_csv_file != ""
+  when: >
+    ansible_env.SUDO_USER is defined and
+    baremetal_csv_file is defined and
+    baremetal_csv_file != ""
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-openstack-ci-prep/tasks/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-openstack-ci-prep/tasks/main.yml
index 4427553e5..c2e7505c2 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-openstack-ci-prep/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-openstack-ci-prep/tasks/main.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@
   when: ci_testing_zuul is defined
 - name: "Create an SSH key for Jenkins user if operating in OpenStack CI"
   shell: ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -N ""
-  when: ci_testing_zuul is defined and test_ssh_public_key_path.stat.exists == false
-- name: "Create an empty SSH known_hosts file for Jenkins user if operating in OpenStack CI"
+  when: >
+    ci_testing_zuul is defined and
+    test_ssh_public_key_path.stat.exists |bool  == false
+- name: >
+    "Create an empty SSH known_hosts file for Jenkins user
+    if operating in OpenStack CI"
   shell: touch ~/.ssh/known_hosts && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
-  when: ci_testing_zuul is defined and test_ssh_public_key_path.stat.exists == false
+  when: >
+    ci_testing_zuul is defined and
+    test_ssh_public_key_path.stat.exists | bool == false
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-test-vm/tasks/main.yml b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-test-vm/tasks/main.yml
index ed3cc2441..20ea80b2a 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/bifrost-test-vm/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/playbooks/roles/bifrost-test-vm/tasks/main.yml
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 ---
-- name: "Execute ping step to verify connectivity and login to the host.  If this fails, the configdrive may not have loaded."
+- name: >
+    "Execute ping step to verify connectivity and login to the host.
+    If this fails, the configdrive may not have loaded."
   # NOTE(TheJulia): This is executed as a raw command to validate the remote
   # hostname. This is because cirros lacks sftp support.
   raw: hostname
   register: instance_hostname
-- name: 'Error if hostname is set to "ubuntu", "cirros", "debian", or "centos"'
+- name: >
+    'Error if hostname is set to "ubuntu", "cirros", "debian", or "centos"'
   # TODO: Presently this step is unable to cycle through each host and verify
   # its hostname is properly set. Perhaps if there was some way to extract
   # the data on each host from ironic's DB and then verify that information
@@ -27,5 +30,11 @@
   # which will allow this role to do validation of the remote node.
   # NOTE(TheJulia): If we go down the path of additional validation, we need
   # to keep things like Cirros in mind.
-  fail: msg='Check if hostname was changed from the default value. If this fails, the configdrive may not have been used.'
-  when: '"ubuntu" in instance_hostname.stdout or "cirros" in instance_hostname.stdout or "debian" in instance_hostname.stdout or "centos" in instance_hostname.stdout'
+  fail: >
+    msg='Check if hostname was changed from the default value.
+    If this fails, the configdrive may not have been used.'
+  when: >
+    "ubuntu" in instance_hostname.stdout or
+    "cirros" in instance_hostname.stdout or
+    "debian" in instance_hostname.stdout or
+    "centos" in instance_hostname.stdout