# Using async and poll on includes or imports **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 17, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-async-and-poll-on-includes-or-imports/27810 "2018-06-17T05:51:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joeldamata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@joeldamata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/joeldamata)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-async-and-poll-on-includes-or-imports/27810/1 "2018-06-17T05:51:31Z")
Hi, I have been trying to find a way to speed up my playbooks. What i would like to do is have a playbook wherein i am running all tasks on a single host at the same time. Initially i thought i could use async/poll to fire all the tasks in my playbook at the same time. I found out that its not possible to use async/poll on includes or imports in [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19083](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/19083) In another thread it was advised that to run multiple playbooks/includes in parallel i should use outside tools like gnu parallels. This isn’t pretty for me as I would be prompted for a password at each ansible-playbook call. I can’t encrypt the passwords and place them outside of a vault because these playbooks are used by a team and would be a hassle to swap them out for everyone. ([https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/31](https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/31)) What I am looking for is if someone else has a similar situation which they have solved or if I am doing something fundamentally wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! What i currently have is the below: (there is about 10 other apps that would be in the inventory but ive only included 2 for this purpose) **Inventory:** [all:vars] complex\_prefix=info instance=prod user\_suffix= [service1] host1 [service2] host[1:2] **Playbook:**