ansible/docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/playbooks_special_topics.rst

.. _playbooks_special_topics:

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.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   become
   playbooks_async
   playbooks_checkmode
   playbooks_debugger
   playbooks_delegation
   playbooks_environment
   playbooks_error_handling
   playbooks_advanced_syntax
   ../plugins/plugins
   playbooks_prompts
   playbooks_tags
   playbooks_vault
   playbooks_startnstep
   ../reference_appendices/playbooks_keywords
   playbooks_lookups
   playbooks_module_defaults
clarifies FAQ answer about env vars (#48432) 2018-11-09 19:31:29 +00:00			`.. _playbooks_special_topics:`

Core Docs Refactor and Redesign (#36067) * Docs refactor as outlined in https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/79. Moves content into 'guides'; refactors TOC; fixes CSS; design tweaks to layout and CSS; fixes generated plugin, CLI and module docs to fix links accodingly; more. * Adding extra blank line for shippable 2018-02-13 15:23:55 +00:00			`Advanced Playbooks Features`
			`===========================`

clarifies FAQ answer about env vars (#48432) 2018-11-09 19:31:29 +00:00			`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`
Reorg of the documentation tree such that the sidebar will be more correct. Some work yet to do on module docs. 2013-12-24 22:51:16 +00:00			`and adopt these only if they seem relevant or useful to your environment.`

			`.. toctree::`
			`:maxdepth: 1`

minor doc fixes 2015-06-04 00:55:55 +00:00			`become`
Reorg of the documentation tree such that the sidebar will be more correct. Some work yet to do on module docs. 2013-12-24 22:51:16 +00:00			`playbooks_async`
			`playbooks_checkmode`
Add debug strategy plugin (#15125) * Add debug strategy plugin * Fix Python 2-3 compatiblity issue * Add document for debug strategy 2016-04-08 18:39:08 +00:00			`playbooks_debugger`
Reorg of the documentation tree such that the sidebar will be more correct. Some work yet to do on module docs. 2013-12-24 22:51:16 +00:00			`playbooks_delegation`
			`playbooks_environment`
			`playbooks_error_handling`
Add documentation about the unsafe YAML tag 2016-02-04 17:10:30 +00:00			`playbooks_advanced_syntax`
Doc build warning/broken link clean-a-palooza (#37382) * Doc build warning/broken link clean-a-palooza, WIP commit 1. * Fixed broken anchor * Fixing additional broken links; converting from doc to ref. * Fix anchor 2018-03-14 19:44:21 +00:00			`../plugins/plugins`
Reorg of the documentation tree such that the sidebar will be more correct. Some work yet to do on module docs. 2013-12-24 22:51:16 +00:00			`playbooks_prompts`
			`playbooks_tags`
Document vault and make some cross-references in places where people should read about vault. 2014-02-27 22:44:21 +00:00			`playbooks_vault`
put start and step docs into their own topic, moved from playbook_intro which is meant to be kept simple 2014-11-15 22:01:25 +00:00			`playbooks_startnstep`
Doc build warning/broken link clean-a-palooza (#37382) * Doc build warning/broken link clean-a-palooza, WIP commit 1. * Fixed broken anchor * Fixing additional broken links; converting from doc to ref. * Fix anchor 2018-03-14 19:44:21 +00:00			`../reference_appendices/playbooks_keywords`
updated plugin docs (#30490) * updated docs - for devs: - added inventory/vars section - made some updates to general section and other plugin types - for users: - added 'user' plugin section to start describing the plugins - docs on types, what they are and how to use - removed ref to deleted AUTHORS file - corrected several typos/headers - added descriptions to config.rst template - ignore generated files for cli/plugins and config - remove new generated files on `make clean` - moved details from devguid and intro doc to plugin specific pages - pretied up lookup notes - changed precedence ref to not conflict config - removed duplicate config data, as config is autogenerated and up to date - put new plugins under playbooks - added `pass` cause rst/python dislikes fractions - removed dupe in .gitignore, alpha sorted to avoid moar dupes - added try cause rst/python freaks out * generate plugins into their own dir only do plugins that support docs use toctree from main plugins page 2017-09-23 03:19:50 +00:00			`playbooks_lookups`
Docs for module_defaults feature (#39932) 2018-05-25 08:15:44 +00:00			`playbooks_module_defaults`