Ansible Configuration Management - Second Edition

Chapter 4. Larger Projects

Until now we have been looking at single plays in one playbook file. This approach will work for simple infrastructures, or when using Ansible as a simple deployment mechanism. However, if you have a large and complicated infrastructure, then you will need to take actions to prevent things from going out of control. This chapter will include the following topics:

• Separating your playbooks into different files, and including them from some other location
• Using roles to include multiple files that perform a similar function
• Methods for increasing the speed at which Ansible configures your machines

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One of the first issues you will face with a complex infrastructure is that your playbooks will rapidly increase in size. ...