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diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8c851c12 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +.. _working_with_playbooks: + +Working with playbooks +====================== + +Playbooks record and execute Ansible's configuration, deployment, and orchestration functions. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process. + +If Ansible modules are the tools in your workshop, playbooks are your instruction manuals, and your inventory of hosts are your raw material. + +At a basic level, playbooks can be used to manage configurations of and deployments to remote machines. At a more advanced level, they can sequence multi-tier rollouts involving rolling updates, and can delegate actions to other hosts, interacting with monitoring servers and load balancers along the way. + +Playbooks are designed to be human-readable and are developed in a basic text language. There are multiple ways to organize playbooks and the files they include, and we'll offer up some suggestions on that and making the most out of Ansible. + +You should look at `Example Playbooks <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples>`_ while reading along with the playbook documentation. These illustrate best practices as well as how to put many of the various concepts together. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + playbooks_templating + playbooks_special_topics + guide_rolling_upgrade |