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+# Salt's Ansible Scripts
+
+A collection of Ansible scripts to manage my desktops and my EC2 environment.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+To deploy on an EC2 node, just tag it and give it roles in `ec2.yml`.
+
+To deploy a new desktop, try this one-liner:
+
+```
+command -v git || sudo apt install -y git; git clone https://git.9iron.club/salt/ansible && cd ansible && ./localhost-deploy.sh
+```