Create a Playbook

Make Ansible tasks repeatable using playbooks.

Playbooks are the basis of configuration management, and orchestrated automation with Ansible, and are designed for automating repeatable tasks.

Playbooks are expressed in YAML and have a minimum amount of syntax. YAML is a model of a configuration or a process. Because playbooks define a process and/or configuration, they are kept in source control.

Each playbook is composed of one or more plays. A play starts by defining the hosts line. The hosts line is a list of one or more groups or host patterns separated by colons.

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