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README.md

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+# Ansible Role: ansible
+
+## Introduction
+
+This role will install ansible on the target host.
+
+This role should work on both Ubuntu and CentOS based hosts.
+

tasks/main.yml

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+---
+###########################################################################
+#
+# This playbook will install ansible to the target host.
+#
+###########################################################################
+# tasks file for main.yml
+
+############################################################
+# using the pip3 command rather than the pip ansible module
+# because ansible can get in a weird state depending on the
+# python version used on the target host (python 2 on CentOS 7
+# vs python 3 otherwise)
+
+- debug: msg="Installing ansible via pip"
+
+- name: Installed ansible using pip3
+  shell:
+    cmd: pip3 install ansible
+
+# EOF