Includes
It is completely feasible to create a playbook as a single small or large file. Many new Ansible developers actually begin developing playbook's this way, and generally, this implementation methodology is a perfectly normal way to initially learn Ansible playbook creation. Sooner or later though, learning to reuse portions of a playbook will become something very useful and will help better organize playbook development efforts.
On a fundamentally simplistic level, using an Ansible include statement allows us to reuse positions of our automation in one or multiple locations. Consider this in some ways like a method or function in programming that we can execute over and over, essentially allowing us to write the automation once and then reuse it many times.
This is a far more effective way to reuse automation as it removes the need for repeating the creation of various portions of an automation or configuration management solution. As a result, we can begin to think outside of the...
