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==Separating Playbooks by Role==

For Ansible playbooks involving multiple roles, top level playbooks should be separated by role.

Here is the simplest possible top-level playbook, which includes two sub-playbooks:

<pre>
- import_playbook: webservers.yml
- import_playbook: dbservers.yml
</pre>

These files are both at the top level, and 

==Using Separate Playbooks==

Now that you have multiple roles split across playbooks, you can either configure your whole infrastructure, by running site.yml with ansible-playbook, or you can configure particular pieces of infrastructure, for example by only running dbservers.yml.

To limit which playbooks are run, either run the whole site-wide playbook with the --limit flag, or run with the sub-playbook:

<pre>
ansible-playbook site.yml --limit webservers
ansible-playbook webservers.yml
</pre>

==Flags==

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