By default, Ansible executes playbooks on a single host. However, in various scenarios, tasks need to be executed across multiple hosts in a

By default, Ansible executes playbooks on a single host. However, in various scenarios, tasks need to be executed across multiple hosts in a specific sequence. A common example is a web server that must be taken offline from the load balancer before being modified. A typical playbook for this scenario would:

• Reconfigure the load balancer to take the web server offline
• Reconfigure the web server
• Reconfigure the load balancer to bring the web server back online

If we refer to our previously mentioned network fabric, we can adapt this approach:

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