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Initial commit to split includes into static imports/dynamic includes
This implements the new include/import syntax for Ansible 2.4:
* include_{tasks,role,variables} = dynamic
* import_{playbook,tasks,role} = static
The old bare `include` will be considered deprecated, as will any use of the `static: {yes|no}` option.
This also adds docs for import/include and reorganizing the "Playbook Reuse" section of the documentation.
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Playbooks
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Playbooks are Ansible's configuration, deployment, and orchestration language. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process.
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If Ansible modules are the tools in your workshop, playbooks are your instruction manuals, and your inventory of hosts are your raw material.
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At a basic level, playbooks can be used to manage configurations of and deployments to remote machines. At a more advanced level, they can sequence multi-tier rollouts involving rolling updates, and can delegate actions to other hosts, interacting with monitoring servers and load balancers along the way.
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While there's a lot of information here, there's no need to learn everything at once. You can start small and pick up more features
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over time as you need them.
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Playbooks are designed to be human-readable and are developed in a basic text language. There are multiple
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ways to organize playbooks and the files they include, and we'll offer up some suggestions on that and making the most out of Ansible.
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It is recommended to look at `Example Playbooks <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples>`_ while reading along with the playbook documentation. These illustrate best practices as well as how to put many of the various concepts together.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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playbooks_intro
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playbooks_reuse
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playbooks_variables
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playbooks_templating
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playbooks_conditionals
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playbooks_loops
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playbooks_blocks
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playbooks_strategies
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playbooks_best_practices
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