# Parallelism in Ansible
### Parallelism in Ad-hoc commands
-f, --fork
### Parallelism in Playbooks
#### parallelism.yaml
````yaml=1
--- ## Serial execution examples in Ansible
- hosts: all
become: yes
max_fail_percentage: 1
serial:
- 5
- "10%"
tasks:
- name: Apache on Ubuntu
when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == "Debian"
package:
name: apache2
state: present
- name: Apache on CentOS
when: ansible_facts['os_family'] == "RedHat"
package:
name: httpd
state: present
## max_fail_percentage -> put values in integer or percentage
## serial: 1
## or
## serial:
## - 10
## - "20%"
````