# How to run the ansible-playbook command in background?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-run-the-ansible-playbook-command-in-background/20088>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 29, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-run-the-ansible-playbook-command-in-background/20088 "2015-12-29T09:33:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Honsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aca169/32.png) [@Honsen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Honsen)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-run-the-ansible-playbook-command-in-background/20088/1 "2015-12-29T09:33:31Z")

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saltstack has a “–async” parameter to run salt state.sls in background, does ansible-playbook has a similar parameter to run the command in background ?