Make additional reference to playbooks examples dir

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Michael DeHaan
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<div class="section" id="playbooks">
<h1>Playbooks<a class="headerlink" href="#playbooks" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>Playbooks are a completely different way to use ansible and are
particularly awesome.</p>
<p>They are the basis for a really simple configuration management and
multi-machine deployment system, unlike any that already exist, and
particularly awesome. They are the basis for a really simple
configuration management and multi-machine deployment system,
unlike any that already exist, and
one that is very well suited to deploying complex applications.</p>
<p>Playbooks can declare configurations, or they can automate steps of
a manual ordered process. They can launch tasks synchronously or asynchronously.</p>
<p>Playbooks can declare configurations, but they can also orchestrate steps of
any manual ordered process, even as different steps must bounce back and forth
between sets of machines in particular orders. They can launch tasks
synchronously or asynchronously.</p>
<p>While you might run the main /usr/bin/ansible program for ad-hoc
tasks, playbooks are more likely to be kept in source control and used
to push out your configuration or assure the configurations of your
remote systems are in spec.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s dive in and see how they work.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s dive in and see how they work. As you go, you may wish to open
the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/master/examples/playbooks">github examples directory</a> in
another tab, so you can apply the theory to what things look like in practice.</p>
<div class="section" id="playbook-example">
<h2>Playbook Example<a class="headerlink" href="#playbook-example" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Playbooks are expressed in YAML format and have a minimum of syntax.