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Note about 'become' functionality in Ansible
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@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ The CVMFS layer of the EESSI project consists of the usual CVMFS infrastructure:
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The main prerequisite is Ansible (https://github.com/ansible/ansible),
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which can be easily installed via the package manager of most Linux distributions or via `pip install`.
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For more details, see the Ansible installation guide: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html.
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Note that Ansible needs to be able to log in to the remote machines where you want to install some CVMFS component,
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and needs to be able to use privilege escalation (e.g. `sudo`) on those machines to execute tasks with root permission.
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For the installation of all components we make use of two Ansible roles: the CVMFS installation role provided by the Galaxy project (see
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https://github.com/galaxyproject/ansible-cvmfs), and a role for adding the EPEL repository (https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-repo-epel).

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