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@@ -126,10 +126,32 @@ Playbooks Playbooks are particularly awesome. Playbooks can batch ansible commands together, and can even fire off triggers when certain commands report changes. -They are the basis for a really simple configuration management system, unlike -any that already exist. Powerful, concise, but dead simple. -See examples/playbook.yml for what the syntax looks like, and the manpage -- [ansible-playbook(5)](https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible/blob/master/docs/man/man5/ansible-playbook.5.asciidoc) for more details. +They are the basis for a really simple configuration management system, unlike +any that already exist, and one that is very well suited to deploying complex +multi-machine applications. + +An example showing just once pattern in a playbook is below. Playbooks can contain +multple patterns in a single file. + + --- + - pattern: 'webservers*' + comment: webserver setup steps + hosts: '/etc/ansible/hosts' + tasks: + - name: configure template & module variables for future template calls + action: setup http_port=80 max_clients=200 + - name: write the apache config file + action: template src=/srv/templates/httpd.j2 dest=/etc/httpd/conf + notify: + - restart apache + - name: ensure apache is running + action: service name=httpd state=started + handlers: + - name: restart apache + - action: service name=httpd state=restarted + +See the playbook format manpage -- [ansible-playbook(5)](https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible/blob/master/docs/man/man5/ansible-playbook.5.asciidoc) for more details. To run a playbook: |