Advanced Playbooks Features

Here are some playbook features that not everyone may need to learn, but can be quite useful for particular applications. Browsing these topics is recommended as you may find some useful tips here, but feel free to learn the basics of Ansible first and adopt these only if they seem relevant or useful to your environment.

• Understanding Privilege Escalation
• Asynchronous Actions and Polling
• Check Mode (“Dry Run”)
• Playbook Debugger
• Delegation, Rolling Updates, and Local Actions
• Setting the Environment (and Working With Proxies)
• Working With Language-Specific Version Managers
• Error Handling In Playbooks
• Advanced Syntax
• Working With Plugins
• Prompts
• Tags
• Using Vault in playbooks
• Start and Step
• Playbook Keywords
• Lookups
• Module defaults