add an example of multiple plays in a single playbook

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Tim Gerla 10 years ago
parent e88a9e943c
commit 597d3a5eaa

@ -106,6 +106,33 @@ YAML dictionaries to supply the modules with their key=value arguments.::
name: httpd
state: restarted
Playbooks can contain multiple plays. You may have a playbook that targets first
the web servers, and then the database servers. For example::
---
- hosts: webservers
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: ensure apache is at the latest version
yum: pkg=httpd state=latest
- name: write the apache config file
template: src=/srv/httpd.j2 dest=/etc/httpd.conf
- hosts: databases
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: ensure postgresql is at the latest version
yum: name=postgresql state=latest
- name: ensure that postgresql is started
service: name=postgresql state=running
You can use this method to switch between the host group you're targeting,
the username logging into the remote servers, whether to sudo or not, and so
forth. Plays, like tasks, run in the order specified in the playbook: top to
bottom.
Below, we'll break down what the various features of the playbook language are.
.. _playbook_basics:

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