# How do I execute Playbooks sequentially for instances not hosts

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-execute-playbooks-sequentially-for-instances-not-hosts/21290>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [April 27, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-execute-playbooks-sequentially-for-instances-not-hosts/21290 "2016-04-27T14:14:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Santhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Santhi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Santhi)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-execute-playbooks-sequentially-for-instances-not-hosts/21290/1 "2016-04-27T14:14:31Z")

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We have 4 instances on a server and I am passing the sever with --limit. Now I want to execute all the tasks for playbook for each domain

Mentioning serial:1, is executing tasks sequentially for server but not instances.

Please let me know!

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-execute-playbooks-sequentially-for-instances-not-hosts/21290/2 "2016-04-28T12:05:57Z")

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Can you share your playbook or a cut-down version of it? It is hard to understand without detail - ansible is very flexible!