# here's an example of a playbook to configure a ganglia cluster

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**Created:** [April 14, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/heres-an-example-of-a-playbook-to-configure-a-ganglia-cluster/11411 "2012-04-14T19:47:28Z")\
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**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:** [April 14, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/heres-an-example-of-a-playbook-to-configure-a-ganglia-cluster/11411/1 "2012-04-14T19:47:28Z")

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Did this for an article I'm going to be writing.

[https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible-examples](https://github.com/mpdehaan/ansible-examples)

Probably not super-perfect, but thought it chained together some  
concepts a bit more completely than the mostly  
abstract examples we have now. It shows off includes, basic  
variables, multi-node playbooks, services, packages,  
and templates.

I'll probably move this over to the contrib directory soon.

This is sort of what I visualize "best practice" playbooks to look  
like (using includes to define roles). Maybe that's not  
going to be the case though. Who knows! I'd love to see some  
playbooks other people are writing.

--Michael