Agree - not sure what the advantage is. I understand bootstrapping can be a mino...

fredsted · on June 10, 2017

With Ansible I use the 'raw' command to run a command to check whether Python (dependency of Ansible) is installed, and install it if not.

    - name: Bootstrap Ansible
      hosts: all
      gather_facts: False
      tasks:
        - name: Install Python 2
          raw: test -e /usr/bin/python || (sudo apt -y update && sudo apt install -y python-minimal)