What's best practices for starting, bouncing, stopping a deployment?

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Hi all,

The operations workload of a distributed system often include initializing, upgrading, bouncing, stopping, restarting the system. It seems that the official examples of ansible (https://github.com/ansible/ansible-example) just showed how to initialize a deployment, no further operations.
I think ansible can do the other things as well. What’s the best practices to achieve those tasks? By different directory or different roles? Or just different ansible project?
Is there any existing example for this?

Thanks,
Min

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Separate playbooks for special kinds of rollouts seem to be the way to go. Everyone should have a “rolling openssl upgrade” playbook, for instance ;).