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Playbook structure

In the previous chapters, the playbooks we have been running have typically been as basic as possible. They have all been in a single file, which is accompanied by a host inventory file. In this chapter, as we are going to be greatly expanding the amount of work our playbook is doing, so we are going to be using the directory structure recommended by Ansible.

As you can see from the following layout, there are several folders and files:

Let's work on creating the structure and discuss each item as we create it. The first folder we need to create is our top-level folder. This is the folder that will contain our playbook folders ...