Ansible is pluggable in a lot of other ways separate from inventory scripts and callbacks. Many of these features are there to cover fringe use cases and are infrequently needed, and others are pluggable simply because they are there to implement core features
in ansible and were most convenient to be made pluggable.
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You can find some example playbooks illustrating these best practices in our `ansible-examples repository <https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples>`_. (NOTE: These may not use all of the features in the latest release, but are still an excellent reference!).
Being designed for multi-tier deployments since the beginning, Ansible is great at doing things on one host on behalf of another, or doing local steps with reference to some remote hosts.
This in particular this is very applicable when setting up continuous deployment infrastructure or zero downtime rolling updates, where you might be talking with load balancers or monitoring systems.