# Shared Playbooks best practices

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/shared-playbooks-best-practices/36037>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [November 27, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/shared-playbooks-best-practices/36037 "2021-11-27T10:14:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_Price](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Alex\_Price](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alex_Price)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/shared-playbooks-best-practices/36037/1 "2021-11-27T10:14:00Z")

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Hi

Im very new to Ansible and I’m planning to use it to manage a number of windows servers.

I have setup Ansible using Debian and I have created a few test playbooks but where is the best place to store shared playbooks and inventory on the file system so all my server admins can run them but not edit them?

Im very new to linux so unsure about best practices for storing files on the file system.

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**Author:** ![Elio\_Lopez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@Elio\_Lopez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Elio_Lopez)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/shared-playbooks-best-practices/36037/2 "2021-11-27T19:16:47Z")

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Hello Alex,  
I think you should give AWX a shot, since seems to fit to your user case: [https://github.com/ansible/awx](https://github.com/ansible/awx)  
You can install it on a server, and then segregate user permissions there, playbook versioning through SCM, etc.  
Redhat has also a paid version, but is basically the same thing.  
Thanks,  
Elio

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Price](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Alex\_Price](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alex_Price)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/shared-playbooks-best-practices/36037/3 "2021-11-27T22:45:16Z")

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Hi Elio

Thanks for getting back to me. We definitely plan to look at AWX or Tower, as you said it looks like what I’m after in the long run.  
I just wanted to get the guys writing and using playbooks to give us a head start.

Thanks  
Alex