#3 Reload daemon before service restart

handlers/main.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # file: roles/fail2ban/handlers/main.yml
 
 - name: "Restart Fail2Ban"
-  service:
+  systemd:
     name: 'fail2ban'
     state: 'restarted'
+    daemon_reload: 'yes'