# globally include handlers

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/globally-include-handlers/12451>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [March 4, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/globally-include-handlers/12451 "2013-03-04T18:13:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/globally-include-handlers/12451/1 "2013-03-04T18:13:32Z")

</div>

You can't, but this is a GREAT reasons to have less playbooks and just  
use task includes.

Handlers are also super easy to just put all of them into one file.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kahlil.hodgson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9bd4f/32.png) [@kahlil.hodgson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kahlil.hodgson)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/globally-include-handlers/12451/2 "2013-03-04T20:31:53Z")

</div>

Hmmm ... a similar idea to the trick of replacing 'global\_vars.yml' with 'group\_vars/all'. It would clean our playbooks up a bit -- removing boilerplate that does not add anything to what the playbook is expressing.

K