Cross-platform OpenSSH server management with Ansible

I’ve previously written about managing the OpenSSH server with Ansible. That example focused on my BSD servers. I also manage Ubuntu and CentOS machines as well as my FreeBSD and OpenBSD. While the BSD machines are very similar, Ubuntu and CentOS might are two different operating systems. Can I manage all of them by hand? Sure. But some of these call their SSH service ssh, while others call it sshd. They store their SFTP servers in different directories.

I want to manage all of these simultane...