# Push vs pull paradigm **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [January 15, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/push-vs-pull-paradigm/20227 "2016-01-15T11:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SFT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SFT](https://forum.ansible.com/u/SFT)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/push-vs-pull-paradigm/20227/1 "2016-01-15T11:07:43Z")
I really like the push aspect of Ansible for those times when a change needs to happen immediately. I would like to also ensure compliance across system without having to manually push all the time. What are others doing for this scenario? ansible-pull looks interesting and I’ll be investigating it, but it seems on the surface that you’d end up maintaining a large number of .yml playbooks. I could also run ansible-playbook on a cron on a “master” server. Any thoughts on how others have approached this? Is this why some are still using puppet or chef in addition to Ansible? Steve ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/push-vs-pull-paradigm/20227/2 "2016-01-15T13:49:51Z")
For ansible-pull, the file can be named local.yml or localhost.yml which does not represent the targeted hosts, that is in the - hosts: clause of each play (which ansible-pull will limit to the current host by matching 'localhost' or the 'fqdn'. This allows you to have a single file and then run it against all hosts, which will run the plays into which the host matches name/groups as defined in inventory. ---
**Author:** ![SFT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@SFT](https://forum.ansible.com/u/SFT)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/push-vs-pull-paradigm/20227/3 "2016-01-16T03:33:33Z")
That makes much more sense. Thank you for clearing that up. I’ll do some testing and see if ansible-pull alone will meet my needs.