diff --git a/examples/playbooks/ansible_pull.yml b/examples/playbooks/ansible_pull.yml
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-# ansible-pull setup
-#
-# on remote hosts, set up ansible to run periodically using the latest code
-# from a particular checkout, in pull based fashion, inverting Ansible's
-# usual push-based operating mode.
-#
-# This particular pull based mode is ideal for:
-#
-# (A) massive scale out
-# (B) continual system remediation
-#
-# DO NOT RUN THIS AGAINST YOUR HOSTS WITHOUT CHANGING THE repo_url
-# TO SOMETHING YOU HAVE PERSONALLY VERIFIED
-#
-#
----
-
-- hosts: pull_mode_hosts
-  user: root
-
-  vars:
-
-    # schedule is fed directly to cron
-    schedule: '*/15 * * * *'
-
-    # User to run ansible-pull as from cron
-    cron_user: root
-
-    # File that ansible will use for logs
-    logfile: /var/log/ansible-pull.log
-
-    # Directory to where repository will be cloned
-    workdir: /var/lib/ansible/local
-
-    # Repository to check out -- YOU MUST CHANGE THIS
-    # repo must contain a local.yml file at top level
-    #repo_url: git://github.com/sfromm/ansible-playbooks.git
-    repo_url: SUPPLY_YOUR_OWN_GIT_URL_HERE
-
-  tasks:
-
-    - name: Install ansible
-      action: yum pkg=ansible state=installed
-
-    - name: Create local directory to work from
-      action: file path={{workdir}} state=directory owner=root group=root mode=0751
-
-    - name: Copy ansible inventory file to client
-      action: copy src=/etc/ansible/hosts dest=/etc/ansible/hosts
-              owner=root group=root mode=0644
-
-    - name: Create crontab entry to clone/pull git repository
-      action: template src=templates/etc_cron.d_ansible-pull.j2 dest=/etc/cron.d/ansible-pull owner=root group=root mode=0644
-
-    - name: Create logrotate entry for ansible-pull.log
-      action: template src=templates/etc_logrotate.d_ansible-pull.j2 dest=/etc/logrotate.d/ansible-pull owner=root group=root mode=0644
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/batch_size_control.yml b/examples/playbooks/batch_size_control.yml
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-# ordinarily, without the 'serial' keyword set, ansible will control all of your machines in a play at once, in parallel.
-# if you want to perform a rolling update, so that each play completes all the way through on a certain number of hosts
-# before moving on to the remaining hosts, use the 'serial' keyword like so:
-
----
-- hosts: all
-  serial: 3
-
-# now each of the tasks below will complete on 3 hosts before moving on to the next 3, regardless of how many
-# hosts are selected by the "hosts:" line
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: ping
-    action: ping
-  - name: ping2
-    action: ping
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/cloudformation.yaml b/examples/playbooks/cloudformation.yaml
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--- a/examples/playbooks/cloudformation.yaml
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----
-# This playbook demonstrates how to use the ansible cloudformation module to launch an AWS CloudFormation stack.
-#
-# This module requires that the boto python library is installed, and that you have your AWS credentials
-# in $HOME/.boto
-
-#The thought here is to bring up a bare infrastructure with CloudFormation, but use ansible to configure it.
-#I generally do this in 2 different playbook runs as to allow the ec2.py inventory to be updated.
-
-#This module also uses "complex arguments" which were introduced in ansible 1.1 allowing you to specify the
-#Cloudformation template parameters
-
-#This example launches a 3 node AutoScale group, with a security group, and an InstanceProfile with root permissions.
-
-#If a stack does not exist, it will be created.  If it does exist and the template file has changed, the stack will be updated.
-#If the parameters are different, the stack will also be updated.
-
-#CloudFormation stacks can take awhile to provision, if you are curious about its status, use the AWS
-#web console or one of the CloudFormation CLI's.
-
-#Example update -- try first launching the stack with 3 as the ClusterSize.  After it is launched, change it to 4
-#and run the playbook again.
-
-- name: provision stack
-  hosts: localhost
-  connection: local
-  gather_facts: false
-
-  # Launch the cloudformation-example.json template.  Register the output.
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: launch ansible cloudformation example
-    cloudformation: >
-      stack_name="ansible-cloudformation" state=present
-      region=us-east-1 disable_rollback=true
-      template=files/cloudformation-example.json
-    args:
-      template_parameters:
-        KeyName: jmartin
-        DiskType: ephemeral
-        InstanceType: m1.small
-        ClusterSize: 3
-    register: stack
-  - name: show stack outputs
-    debug: msg="My stack outputs are {{stack.stack_outputs}}"
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/complex_args.yml b/examples/playbooks/complex_args.yml
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--- a/examples/playbooks/complex_args.yml
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----
-
-# this is a bit of an advanced topic.
-#
-# generally Ansible likes to pass simple key=value arguments to modules.  It occasionally comes up though
-# that you might want to write a module that takes COMPLEX arguments, like lists and dictionaries.
-#
-# happen, at least right now, it should be a Python module, so it can leverage some common code in Ansible that
-# makes this easy.  If you write a non-Python module, you can still pass data across, but only hashes that
-# do not contain lists or other hashes.  If you write the Python module, you can do anything.
-#
-# note that if you were to use BOTH the key=value form and the 'args' form for passing data in, the key=value
-# parameters take a higher priority, so you can use them for defaults, which can be useful.
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: no
- 
-  vars:
-    defaults:
-      state: stopped
-    complex:
-      ghostbusters: [ 'egon', 'ray', 'peter', 'winston' ]
-      mice: [ 'pinky', 'brain', 'larry' ]
- 
-  tasks:
-
-    - name: this is the basic way data passing works for any module
-      action: ping data='Hi Mom'
-
-    - name: of course this can also be written like so, which is shorter
-      ping: data='Hi Mom'
-
-    - name: but what if you have a complex module that needs complicated data?
-      action: ping
-      args:
-         data: 
-           moo: cow
-           asdf: [1,2,3,4]
-
-    - name: can we make that cleaner? sure!
-      action: ping
-      args: { data: $complex }
-
-    - name: here is an example of how it works with defaults, notice the key=value format wins
-      action: service name=httpd state=running
-      args: $defaults
-
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/conditionals_part1.yml b/examples/playbooks/conditionals_part1.yml
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--- a/examples/playbooks/conditionals_part1.yml
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----
-# this is a demo of conditional imports.  This is a powerful concept
-# and can be used to use the same recipe for different types of hosts,
-# based on variables that bubble up from the hosts from tools such
-# as ohai or facter.
-#
-# Here's an example use case:
-#
-# what to do if the service for apache is named 'httpd' on CentOS
-# but is named 'apache' on Debian?
-
-
-# there is only one play in this playbook, it runs on all hosts
-# as root
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-# we have a common list of variables stored in /vars/external_vars.yml
-# that we will always import
-
-# next, we want to import files that are different per operating system
-# and if no per operating system file is found, load a defaults file.
-# for instance, if the OS was "CentOS", we'd try to load vars/CentOS.yml.
-# if that was found, we would immediately stop.  However if that wasn't
-# present, we'd try to load vars/defaults.yml.  If that in turn was not
-# found, we would fail immediately, because we had gotten to the end of
-# the list without importing anything.
-
-  vars_files:
-
-     - "vars/external_vars.yml"
-
-     - [ "vars/{{ facter_operatingsystem }}.yml", "vars/defaults.yml" ]
-
-# and this is just a regular task line from a playbook, as we're used to.
-# but with variables in it that come from above.  Note that the variables
-# from above are *also* available in templates
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: ensure apache is latest
-    action: "{{ packager }} pkg={{ apache }} state=latest"
-
-  - name: ensure apache is running
-    action: service name={{ apache }} state=running
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/conditionals_part2.yml b/examples/playbooks/conditionals_part2.yml
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----
-# this is a demo of conditional executions using 'when' statements, which can skip
-# certain tasks on machines/platforms/etc where they do not apply.  
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-  vars:
-     favcolor: "red"
-     dog: "fido"
-     cat: "whiskers"
-     ssn: 8675309
-
-  tasks:
-
-     - name: "do this if my favcolor is blue, and my dog is named fido"
-       action: shell /bin/false
-       when: favcolor == 'blue' and dog == 'fido'
-
-     - name: "do this if my favcolor is not blue, and my dog is named fido"
-       action: shell /bin/true
-       when: favcolor != 'blue' and dog == 'fido'
-
-     - name: "do this if my SSN is over 9000"
-       action: shell /bin/true
-       when: ssn > 9000
-
-     - name: "do this if I have one of these SSNs"
-       action: shell /bin/true
-       when:  ssn in [ 8675309, 8675310, 8675311 ]
-     
-     - name: "do this if a variable named hippo is NOT defined"
-       action: shell /bin/true
-       when: hippo is not defined
-
-     - name: "do this if a variable named hippo is defined"
-       action: shell /bin/true
-       when: hippo is defined
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/custom_filters.yml b/examples/playbooks/custom_filters.yml
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--- a/examples/playbooks/custom_filters.yml
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----
-
-- name: Demonstrate custom jinja2 filters
-  hosts: all
-  tasks:
-  - action: template src=templates/custom-filters.j2 dest=/tmp/custom-filters.txt
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/delegation.yml b/examples/playbooks/delegation.yml
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@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# this is an example of how we can perform actions on a given host on behalf of all the hosts
-# in a play.  
-#
-# The two main uses of this would be signalling an outage window for hosts that
-# we are going to start upgrading, or to take a machine out of rotation by talking to a load
-# balancer.   
-#
-# This example cheats by replacing the load balancer script with the 'echo' command,
-# leaving actual communication with the load balancer as an exercise to the reader.  In reality,
-# you could call anything you want, the main thing is that it should do something with 
-# {{inventory_hostname}}
-
-# NOTE: see batch_size_control.yml for an example of the 'serial' keyword, which you almost certainly
-# want to use in this kind of example.  Here we have a mocked up example that does something to
-# 5 hosts at a time
-
-- hosts: all
-  serial: 5
-
-  tasks:
-  
-  - name: take the machine out of rotation
-    action: command echo taking out of rotation {{inventory_hostname}}
-    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
-
-# here's an alternate notation if you are delegating to 127.0.0.1, you can use 'local_action' 
-# instead of 'action' and leave off the 'delegate_to' part.
-#
-# - local_action: command echo taking out of rotation {{inventory_hostname}}
-
-  - name: do several things on the actual host
-    action: command echo hi mom {{inventory_hostname}}
-  
-  - name: put machine back into rotation
-    action: command echo inserting into rotation {{inventory_hostname}}
-    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/environment.yml b/examples/playbooks/environment.yml
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--- a/examples/playbooks/environment.yml
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@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# it is often useful to be able to set the environment for one command and have that environment be totally
-# different for another.  An example is you might use a HTTP proxy for some packages but not for others.
-#
-# in Ansible 1.1 and later, you can pass the environment to any module using either a dictionary variable
-# or a dictionary itself.
-
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-  # here we make a variable named "env" that is a dictionary
-  vars:
-    env: 
-       HI: test2
-       http_proxy: http://proxy.example.com:8080
-
-  tasks:
-
-    # here we just define the dictionary directly and use it
-    # (here $HI is the shell variable as nothing in Ansible will replace it)
-
-    - shell: echo $HI
-      environment:
-         HI: test1
-
-    # here we are using the $env variable above
-    
-    - shell: echo $HI
-      environment: env
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/eucalyptus-ec2.yml b/examples/playbooks/eucalyptus-ec2.yml
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index c8fe3386212..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/eucalyptus-ec2.yml
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@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
----
-# This playbook is an example for deploying multiple instances into EC2/Euca and "doing something" with them.
-#   - uses the ec2 and ec2_vol module.
-#
-# Run this with ansible-playbook and supply the private key for your EC2/Euca user (to access the instance in the second play), e.g:
-# ansible-playbook eucalyptus-ec2-deploy.yml -v --private-key=/path/to/ec2/pri/key
-
-- name: Stage instance(s)
-  hosts: local
-  connection: local
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: false
-
-  vars:
-      keypair: mykeypair
-      instance_type: m1.small
-      security_group: default
-      image: emi-048B3A37
-
-  # Launch 5 instances with the following parameters.  Register the output.
-
-  tasks:
-    - name: Launch instance 
-      local_action: ec2 keypair={{keypair}} group={{security_group}} instance_type={{instance_type}} image={{image}} wait=true count=5 
-      register: ec2
-    
-    # Use with_items to add each instances public IP to a new hostgroup for use in the next play.
-
-    - name: Add new instances to host group
-      local_action: add_host hostname={{item.public_ip}} groupname=deploy
-      with_items: ${ec2.instances}
-
-    # Use the ec2_vol module to create volumes for attachment to each instance. Use with_items to attach to each instance (by returned id) launched previously.
-
-    - name: Create a volume and attach
-      local_action: ec2_vol volume_size=20 instance={{item.id}}
-      with_items: ${ec2.instances}
-
-# This play targets the new host group
-
-- name: Configure instance
-  hosts: deploy
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: True
-
-  # Do some stuff on each instance ....
-
-  tasks:
-    - name: Ensure NTP is up and running
-      action: service name=ntpd state=started
-   
-    - name: Install Apache Web Server
-      action: yum pkg=httpd state=latest
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/file_secontext.yml b/examples/playbooks/file_secontext.yml
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--- a/examples/playbooks/file_secontext.yml
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----
-# This is a demo of how to manage the selinux context using the file module
-- hosts: test
-  user: root
-  tasks:
-    - name: Change setype of /etc/exports to non-default value
-      action: file path=/etc/exports setype=etc_t
-    - name: Change seuser of /etc/exports to non-default value
-      action: file path=/etc/exports seuser=unconfined_u
-    - name: Set selinux context back to default value
-      action: file path=/etc/exports context=default
-    - name: Create empty file
-      action: command /bin/touch /tmp/foo
-    - name: Change setype of /tmp/foo
-      action: file path=/tmp/foo setype=default_t
-    - name: Try to set secontext to default, but this will fail
-            because of the lack of a default in the policy
-      action: file path=/tmp/foo context=default
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/files/cloudformation-example.json b/examples/playbooks/files/cloudformation-example.json
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--- a/examples/playbooks/files/cloudformation-example.json
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-{
-  "Outputs" : {
-    "ClusterSecGroup" : {
-      "Description" : "Name of RegionalManagerSecGroup",
-      "Value" : {
-        "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
-  "Description" : "Launches an example cluster",
-  "Mappings" : {
-    "ebs" : {
-      "ap-northeast-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-4e6cd34f"
-      },
-      "ap-southeast-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-a6a7e7f4"
-      },
-      "eu-west-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-c37474b7"
-      },
-      "sa-east-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-1e08d103"
-      },
-      "us-east-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-1624987f"
-      },
-      "us-west-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-1bf9de5e"
-      },
-      "us-west-2" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-2a31bf1a"
-      }
-    },
-    "ephemeral" : {
-      "ap-northeast-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-5a6cd35b"
-      },
-      "ap-southeast-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-a8a7e7fa"
-      },
-      "eu-west-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-b57474c1"
-      },
-      "sa-east-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-1608d10b"
-      },
-      "us-east-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-e8249881"
-      },
-      "us-west-1" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-21f9de64"
-      },
-      "us-west-2" : {
-        "AMI" : "ami-2e31bf1e"
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "Parameters" : {
-    "ClusterSize" : {
-      "Description" : "Number of nodes in the cluster",
-      "Type" : "String"
-    },
-    "DiskType" : {
-      "AllowedValues" : [
-        "ephemeral",
-        "ebs"
-      ],
-      "Default" : "ephemeral",
-      "Description" : "Type of Disk to use ( ephemeral/ebs )",
-      "Type" : "String"
-    },
-    "InstanceType" : {
-      "AllowedValues" : [
-        "t1.micro",
-        "m1.small",
-        "m1.medium",
-        "m1.large",
-        "m1.xlarge",
-        "m2.xlarge",
-        "m2.2xlarge",
-        "m2.4xlarge",
-        "c1.medium",
-        "c1.xlarge",
-        "cc1.4xlarge"
-      ],
-      "ConstraintDescription" : "must be valid instance type. ",
-      "Default" : "m1.large",
-      "Description" : "Type of EC2 instance for cluster",
-      "Type" : "String"
-    },
-    "KeyName" : {
-      "Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the cluster",
-      "Type" : "String"
-    }
-  },
-  "Resources" : {
-    "ApplicationWaitCondition" : {
-      "DependsOn" : "ClusterServerGroup",
-      "Properties" : {
-        "Handle" : {
-          "Ref" : "ApplicationWaitHandle"
-        },
-        "Timeout" : "4500"
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition"
-    },
-    "ApplicationWaitHandle" : {
-      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle"
-    },
-    "CFNInitUser" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "Path" : "/",
-        "Policies" : [
-          {
-            "PolicyDocument" : {
-              "Statement" : [
-                {
-                  "Action" : [
-                    "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
-                    "s3:GetObject"
-                  ],
-                  "Effect" : "Allow",
-                  "Resource" : "*"
-                }
-              ]
-            },
-            "PolicyName" : "AccessForCFNInit"
-          }
-        ]
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::User"
-    },
-    "CFNKeys" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "UserName" : {
-          "Ref" : "CFNInitUser"
-        }
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::AccessKey"
-    },
-    "ClusterCommunication1" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "FromPort" : "-1",
-        "GroupName" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-        },
-        "IpProtocol" : "icmp",
-        "SourceSecurityGroupName" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-        },
-        "ToPort" : "-1"
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress"
-    },
-    "ClusterCommunication2" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "FromPort" : "1",
-        "GroupName" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-        },
-        "IpProtocol" : "tcp",
-        "SourceSecurityGroupName" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-        },
-        "ToPort" : "65356"
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress"
-    },
-    "ClusterCommunication3" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "FromPort" : "1",
-        "GroupName" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-        },
-        "IpProtocol" : "udp",
-        "SourceSecurityGroupName" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-        },
-        "ToPort" : "65356"
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroupIngress"
-    },
-    "InstanceSecurityGroup" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "GroupDescription" : "Enable SSH access via port 22",
-        "SecurityGroupIngress" : [
-          {
-            "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0",
-            "FromPort" : "22",
-            "IpProtocol" : "tcp",
-            "ToPort" : "22"
-          }
-        ]
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup"
-    },
-    "LaunchConfig" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "IamInstanceProfile" : {
-          "Ref" : "RootInstanceProfile"
-        },
-        "ImageId" : {
-          "Fn::FindInMap" : [
-            {
-              "Ref" : "DiskType"
-            },
-            {
-              "Ref" : "AWS::Region"
-            },
-            "AMI"
-          ]
-        },
-        "InstanceType" : {
-          "Ref" : "InstanceType"
-        },
-        "KeyName" : {
-          "Ref" : "KeyName"
-        },
-        "SecurityGroups" : [
-          {
-            "Ref" : "InstanceSecurityGroup"
-          }
-        ],
-        "UserData" : {
-          "Fn::Base64" : {
-            "Fn::Join" : [
-              "\n",
-              [
-                "#!/bin/bash -v",
-                "exec > >(tee /var/log/cfn-data.log|logger -t user-data -s 2>/dev/console) 2>&1",
-                "",
-                "sleep 10",
-                "",
-                "function retry {",
-                "   nTrys=0",
-                "   maxTrys=5",
-                "   status=256",
-                "   until [ $status == 0 ] ; do",
-                "      $1",
-                "      status=$?",
-                "      nTrys=$(($nTrys + 1))",
-                "      if [ $nTrys -gt $maxTrys ] ; then",
-                "            echo \"Number of re-trys exceeded. Exit code: $status\"",
-                "            exit $status",
-                "      fi",
-                "      if [ $status != 0 ] ; then",
-                "            echo \"Failed (exit code $status)... retry $nTrys\"",
-                "            sleep 10",
-                "      fi",
-                "   done",
-                "}",
-                "",
-                "yum update -y aws-cfn-bootstrap",
-                "",
-                "#for all the stuff that complains about sudo and tty",
-                "sed -i 's,Defaults    requiretty,#Defaults    requiretty,g' /etc/sudoers",
-                "",
-                "function error_exit",
-                "{",
-                {
-                  "Fn::Join" : [
-                    "",
-                    [
-                      "  /opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e 1 -r \"$1\" '",
-                      {
-                        "Ref" : "ApplicationWaitHandle"
-                      },
-                      "'"
-                    ]
-                  ]
-                },
-                "}",
-                "yum update -y aws-cfn-bootstrap",
-                "#this runs the first stage of cfinit",
-                {
-                  "Fn::Join" : [
-                    "",
-                    [
-                      "#/opt/aws/bin/cfn-init -c ascending -v --region ",
-                      {
-                        "Ref" : "AWS::Region"
-                      },
-                      " -s ",
-                      {
-                        "Ref" : "AWS::StackName"
-                      },
-                      " -r ",
-                      "LaunchConfig",
-                      " --access-key ",
-                      {
-                        "Ref" : "CFNKeys"
-                      },
-                      " --secret-key ",
-                      {
-                        "Fn::GetAtt" : [
-                          "CFNKeys",
-                          "SecretAccessKey"
-                        ]
-                      },
-                      " || error_exit 'Failed to initialize client using cfn-init'"
-                    ]
-                  ]
-                },
-                "",
-                "",
-                "",
-                "result_code=$?",
-                {
-                  "Fn::Join" : [
-                    "",
-                    [
-                      "/opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e $result_code '",
-                      {
-                        "Ref" : "ApplicationWaitHandle"
-                      },
-                      "'"
-                    ]
-                  ]
-                }
-              ]
-            ]
-          }
-        }
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration"
-    },
-    "ClusterServerGroup" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "AvailabilityZones" : {
-          "Fn::GetAZs" : ""
-        },
-        "LaunchConfigurationName" : {
-          "Ref" : "LaunchConfig"
-        },
-        "MaxSize" : {
-          "Ref" : "ClusterSize"
-        },
-        "MinSize" : {
-          "Ref" : "ClusterSize"
-        }
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup"
-    },
-    "RolePolicies" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "PolicyDocument" : {
-          "Statement" : [
-            {
-              "Action" : "*",
-              "Effect" : "Allow",
-              "Resource" : "*"
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "PolicyName" : "root",
-        "Roles" : [
-          {
-            "Ref" : "RootRole"
-          }
-        ]
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::Policy"
-    },
-    "RootInstanceProfile" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "Path" : "/",
-        "Roles" : [
-          {
-            "Ref" : "RootRole"
-          }
-        ]
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile"
-    },
-    "RootRole" : {
-      "Properties" : {
-        "AssumeRolePolicyDocument" : {
-          "Statement" : [
-            {
-              "Action" : [
-                "sts:AssumeRole"
-              ],
-              "Effect" : "Allow",
-              "Principal" : {
-                "Service" : [
-                  "ec2.amazonaws.com"
-                ]
-              }
-            }
-          ]
-        },
-        "Path" : "/"
-      },
-      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::Role"
-    }
-  }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/filter_plugins/custom_plugins.py b/examples/playbooks/filter_plugins/custom_plugins.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d00e6c3fccf..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/filter_plugins/custom_plugins.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-# (c) 2012, Jeroen Hoekx <jeroen@hoekx.be>
-#
-# This file is part of Ansible
-#
-# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-class FilterModule(object):
-    ''' Custom filters are loaded by FilterModule objects '''
-
-    def filters(self):
-        ''' FilterModule objects return a dict mapping filter names to
-            filter functions. '''
-        return {
-            'generate_answer': self.generate_answer,
-        }
-
-    def generate_answer(self, value):
-        return '42'
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/get_url.yml b/examples/playbooks/get_url.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b1a7dfe6907..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/get_url.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
----
-- hosts: webservers
-  vars:
-  - jquery_directory: /var/www/html/javascript
-  - person: 'Susie%20Smith'
-  tasks:
-  - name: Create directory for jQuery
-    action: file dest={{jquery_directory}} state=directory mode=0755
-  - name: Grab a bunch of jQuery stuff
-    action: get_url url=http://code.jquery.com/{{item}}  dest={{jquery_directory}} mode=0444
-    with_items:
-    - jquery.min.js
-    - mobile/latest/jquery.mobile.min.js
-    - ui/jquery-ui-git.css
-  #- name: Pass urlencoded name to CGI
-  #  action: get_url url=http://example.com/name.cgi?name='{{person}}' dest=/tmp/test
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/group_by.yml b/examples/playbooks/group_by.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f682f7c4e22..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/group_by.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
----
-# Example playbook to demonstrate the group_by action plugin.
-#
-# as we know, the setup module will automatically run in each play, and sets up various
-# facts.  We can then create temporary (in memory only) groups based on those facts, which
-# are useful ways of selecting similar sets of hosts.
-#
-# Additionally, we can use the 'register' keyword in Ansible to set similar variables
-# and use those for grouping.  This is not shown in this example.
-
-- hosts: all
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: Create a group of all hosts by operating system
-    action: group_by key={{ansible_distribution}}-{{ansible_distribution_version}}
-
-# the following host group does not exist in inventory and was created by the group_by
-# module.
-
-- hosts: CentOS-6.2
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: ping all CentOS 6.2 hosts
-    action: ping
-
-- hosts: CentOS-6.3
-
-  tasks:
-  
-  - name: ping all CentOS 6.3 hosts
-    action: ping
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/group_commands.yml b/examples/playbooks/group_commands.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index afb7be91e68..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/group_commands.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
----
-# This is a demo of how the group command works.
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-  sudo: yes
-
-  tasks:
-
-    # Walk through group creation, modification, and deletion
-    - name: create a group
-      action: group name=tset
-
-    # You can only modify the group's gid
-    - action: group name=tset gid=7777
-
-    # And finally remove the group
-    - action: group name=tset state=absent
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/handlers/handlers.yml b/examples/playbooks/handlers/handlers.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b9a25d9edea..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/handlers/handlers.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# this is an example to show that handlers can be included from yaml files,
-# to promote reuse between different plays or even playbooks.  They work
-# just like normal handlers.
-
-- name: restart apache
-  action: service name=httpd state=restarted
-- name: restart memcached
-  action: service name=memcached state=restarted
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/intermediate_example.yml b/examples/playbooks/intermediate_example.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e0cd209ef06..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/intermediate_example.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
----
-# see intro_example.yml first!
-# This file explains some more advanced features of playbooks.
-# because of the comments it's less concise than it normally is.  But feel
-# free to comment your playbooks if you like.
-
-- hosts: all
-
-  # we can define variables the normal way...
-
-  vars:
-    release: 2.0
-
-  # but they can also come from other files.  This can be a relative
-  # or absolute path.  This is a good way to store 'secret' variable
-  # files but still keep the playbook in public source control
-
-  vars_files:
-    - vars/external_vars.yml
-
-  # as with before, every play has a list of tasks in it
-
-  tasks:
-
-  # tasks can be written the normal way...
-
-  - name: arbitrary command
-    action: command /bin/true
-
-  # or we can promote reuse and simplicity by including tasks
-  # from other files, for instance, to reuse common tasks
-
-  - include: tasks/base.yml
-
-  # we could also have done something like:
-  # - include: wordpress.yml user=timmy
-  # and had access to the template variable $user in the
-  # included file, if we wanted to.  Variables from vars
-  # and vars_files are also available inside include files
-
-  handlers:
-
-    # handlers can also be included from files, to promote reuse
-    # and simpler recipes, you may wish to only have one
-    # handler file for all your plays and playbooks.  This example really
-    # doesn't notify any handlers, it is just showing you how they would
-    # be included (see intro_example for usage).
-
-    - include: handlers/handlers.yml
-
-    # you can mix things that are directly in the file with things
-    # that are included.  Order is executed as written, but only
-    # handlers that have been notified get executed
-
-    - name: restart foo
-      action: service name=foo state=restarted
-
-# ===============================================================
-
-# Here's a second play in the same playbook.  This will be run
-# after the first playbook completes on all hosts.  You may want
-# a different play for each class of systems, or may want a different
-# play for each stage in a complex multi-node deployment push
-# process.  How you use them are up to you.
-
-# any play in a playbook can be executed by a user other than root
-# if you want.  sudo support is coming too.
-
-- hosts: webservers
-  user: mdehaan
-
-  # vars must be specified again for the next play in the playbook
-  # but can be reused by including from vars_files if you want
-  # you can use vars, vars_files, or both.  vars_files overrides
-  # those set in vars.
-
-  vars:
-     release: 2.0
-  vars_files:
-     - vars/external_vars.yml
-
-
-  # these all runs as the user 'mdehaan'.  If there were any handlers
-  # they would as well.
-
-  tasks:
-
-     - name: some random command
-       action: command /bin/true
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/intro_example.yml b/examples/playbooks/intro_example.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b81d250d445..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/intro_example.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
----
-# this is an annotated example of some features available in playbooks
-# it shows how to make sure packages are updated, how to make sure
-# services are running, and how to template files.  It also demos
-# change handlers that can restart things (or trigger other actions)
-# when resources change.  For more advanced examples, see example2.yml
-
-# on all hosts, run as the user root...
-
-- name: example play
-  hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-# could have also have done:
-#  user: mdehaan
-#  sudo: yes
-
-  # make these variables available inside of templates
-  # for when we use the 'template' action/module later on...
-
-  vars:
-    http_port: 80
-    max_clients: 200
-
-  # define the tasks that are part of this play...
-
-  tasks:
-
-  # task #1 is to run an arbitrary command
-  # we'll simulate a long running task, wait for up to 45 seconds, poll every 5
-  # obviously this does nothing useful but you get the idea
-
-  - name: longrunner
-    action: command /bin/sleep 15
-    async: 45
-    poll: 5
-
-  # let's demo file operations.
-  #
-  # We can 'copy' files or 'template' them instead, using jinja2
-  # as the templating engine.  This is done using the variables
-  # from the vars section above mixed in with variables bubbled up
-  # automatically from tools like facter and ohai.  'copy'
-  # works just like 'template' but does not do variable subsitution.
-  #
-  # If and only if the file changes, restart apache at the very
-  # end of the playbook run
-
-  - name: write some_random_foo configuration
-    action: template src=templates/foo.j2 dest=/etc/some_random_foo.conf
-    notify:
-    - restart apache
-
-  # make sure httpd is installed at the latest version
-
-  - name: install httpd
-    action: yum pkg=httpd state=latest
-
-  # make sure httpd is running
-
-  - name: httpd start
-    action: service name=httpd state=running
-
-  # handlers are only run when things change, at the very end of each
-  # play.  Let's define some.  The names are significant and must
-  # match the 'notify' sections above
-
-  handlers:
-
-    # this particular handler is run when some_random_foo.conf
-    # is changed, and only then
-
-    - name: restart apache
-      action: service name=httpd state=restarted
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/loop_nested.yml b/examples/playbooks/loop_nested.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b546bd1e7c8..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/loop_nested.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-# this is a trivial example of how to do a nested loop.
-
-- hosts: all
-  tasks:
-    - shell: echo "nested test a={{ item[0] }} b={{ item[1] }} c={{ item[2] }}"
-      with_nested:
-        - [ 'red', 'blue', 'green' ]
-        - [ 1, 2, 3 ]
-        - [ 'up', 'down', 'strange']
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/loop_plugins.yml b/examples/playbooks/loop_plugins.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ea6395172d..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/loop_plugins.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# in addition to loop_with_items, the loop that works over a variable, ansible can do more sophisticated looping.
-
-# developer types: these are powered by 'lookup_plugins' should you ever decide to write your own
-# see lib/ansible/runner/lookup_plugins/fileglob.py -- they can do basically anything!
-
-- hosts: all
-  gather_facts: no
-
-  tasks:
-
-    # this will copy a bunch of config files over -- dir must be created first
-
-    - file: dest=/etc/fooapp state=directory
-
-    - copy: src={{ item }} dest=/etc/fooapp/ owner=root mode=600
-      with_fileglob: /playbooks/files/fooapp/* 
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/loop_with_items.yml b/examples/playbooks/loop_with_items.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b9efba4899..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/loop_with_items.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
----
-# this is an example of how to run repeated task elements over lists
-# of items, for example, installing multiple packages or configuring
-# multiple users
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: install packages
-    action: yum name={{ item }} state=installed
-    with_items:
-       - cobbler
-       - httpd
-
-  - name: configure users
-    action: user name={{ item }} state=present groups=wheel
-    with_items:
-       - testuser1
-       - testuser2
-
-  - name: remove users
-    action: user name={{ item }} state=absent
-    with_items:
-        - testuser1
-        - testuser2
-
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/mysql.yml b/examples/playbooks/mysql.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 27207a837ae..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/mysql.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-##
-# Example Ansible playbook that uses the MySQL module.
-#
-
----
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-  tasks:
-
-    - name: Create database user
-      action: mysql_user user=bob password=12345 priv=*.*:ALL state=present
-
-    - name: Create database
-      action: mysql_db db=bobdata state=present
-
-    - name: Ensure no user named 'sally' exists and delete if found.
-      action: mysql_user user=sally state=absent
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/nested_playbooks.yml b/examples/playbooks/nested_playbooks.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d43608a02a..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/nested_playbooks.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
----
-# it is possible to have top level playbook files import other playbook
-# files.  For example, a playbook called could include three
-# different playbooks, such as webservers, workers, dbservers, etc.
-#
-# Running the site playbook would run all playbooks, while individual
-# playbooks could still be run directly.  This is somewhat like
-# the tag feature and can be used in conjunction for very fine grained
-# control over what you want to target when running ansible.
-
-- name: this is a play at the top level of a file
-  hosts: all
-  user: root
-  tasks:
-  - name: say hi
-    tags: foo
-    action: shell echo "hi..."
-
-# and this is how we include another playbook, be careful and
-# don't recurse infinitely or anything.  Note you can't use
-# any variables in the include path here.
-
-- include: intro_example.yml
-
-# and if we wanted, we can continue with more includes here,
-# or more plays inline in this file
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/netscaler.yml b/examples/playbooks/netscaler.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b1f17101316..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/netscaler.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
----
-#
-# NetScaler module example
-#
-
-- hosts: web-pool
-  serial: 3
-  vars:
-  	nsc_host: nsc.example.com
-  	nsc_user: admin
-  	nsc_pass: nimda
-  	# type of the netscaler object you want to manipulate
-  	type: service
-  	# netscaler object name
-  	name: "{{facter_fqdn}}:8080"
-
-  tasks:
-  	- name: disable service in the lb
-  	  action: netscaler nsc_host={{nsc_host}} user={{nsc_user}} password={{nsc_pass}} name={{name}} type={{type}} action=disable
-
-  	- name: deploy new code
-  	  action: shell yum upgrade -y
-
-  	- name: enable in the lb
-  	  action: netscaler nsc_host={{nsc_host}} user={{nsc_user}} password={{nsc_pass}} name={{name}} type={{type}} action=enable
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/postgresql.yml b/examples/playbooks/postgresql.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cb763bff9ae..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/postgresql.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-##
-# Example Ansible playbook that uses the PostgreSQL module.
-#
-# This installs PostgreSQL on an Ubuntu system, creates a database called
-# "myapp" and a user called "django" with password "mysupersecretpassword"
-# with access to the "myapp" database.
-#
----
-- hosts: webservers
-  sudo: yes
-  gather_facts: no
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: ensure apt cache is up to date
-    action: apt update_cache=yes
-  - name: ensure packages are installed
-    action: apt name={{item}}
-    with_items:
-        - postgresql
-        - libpq-dev
-        - python-psycopg2
-
-- hosts: webservers
-  sudo: yes
-  sudo_user: postgres
-  gather_facts: no
-
-  vars:
-    dbname: myapp
-    dbuser: django
-    dbpassword: mysupersecreetpassword
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: ensure database is created
-    action: postgresql_db db={{dbname}}
-
-  - name: ensure user has access to database
-    action: postgresql_user db={{dbname}} user={{dbuser}} password={{dbpassword}} priv=ALL
-
-  - name: ensure user does not have unnecessary privilege
-    action: postgresql_user user={{dbuser}} role_attr_flags=NOSUPERUSER,NOCREATEDB
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/prompts.yml b/examples/playbooks/prompts.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6016eaad1da..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/prompts.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# it is possible to ask for variables from the user at the start
-# of a playbook run, for example, as part of a release script.
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-# regular variables are a dictionary of keys and values
-
-  vars:
-     this_is_a_regular_var: 'moo'
-     so_is_this: 'quack'
-
-# alternatively, they can ALSO be passed in from the outside:
-#    ansible-playbook foo.yml --extra-vars="foo=100 bar=101"
-# or through external inventory scripts (see online API docs)
-
-# here's basic mode prompting.  Specify a hash of variable names and a prompt for
-# each.
-#
-# vars_prompt:
-#   release_version: "product release version"
-
-# prompts can also be specified like this, allowing for hiding the prompt as
-# entered.  In the future, this may also be used to support crypted variables
-
-  vars_prompt:
-    - name: "some_password"
-      prompt: "Enter password"
-      private: yes
-
-    - name: "release_version"
-      prompt: "Product release version"
-      default: "my_default_version"
-      private: no
-   
-    - name: "my_password2"
-      prompt: "Enter password2"
-      private: yes
-      encrypt: "md5_crypt" 
-      confirm: yes
-      salt_size: 7
-      salt: "foo" 
-
-# this is just a simple example to show that vars_prompt works, but
-# you might ask for a tag to use with the git module or perhaps
-# a package version to use with the yum module.
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: imagine this did something interesting with {{release_version}}
-    action: shell echo foo >> /tmp/{{release_version}}-alpha
-
-  - name: look we crypted a password
-    action: shell echo my password is {{my_password2}}
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/rabbitmq.yml b/examples/playbooks/rabbitmq.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5996f5422c0..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/rabbitmq.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-- hosts: rabbitmq
-  sudo: true
-  vars:
-    rabbitmq_version: 3.0.2-1
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: ensure python-software-properties is installed
-    apt: pkg=python-software-properties state=installed
-
-  - name: add rabbitmq official apt repository
-    apt_repository: repo='deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main' state=present
-
-  - name: install rabbitmq
-    apt: pkg=rabbitmq-server={{rabbitmq_version}} state=installed force=yes
-
-  - name: enable rabbitmq plugins
-    rabbitmq_plugin: names=rabbitmq_management,rabbitmq_tracing,rabbitmq_federation state=enabled
-    notify:
-    - restart rabbitmq
-
-  - name: add users
-    rabbitmq_user: user={{item}} password=changeme tags=administrator,{{item}} vhost=/ configure_priv=.* write_priv=.* read_priv=.* state=present
-    with_items:
-    - user1
-    - user2
-
-  - name: remove default guest user
-    rabbitmq_user: user=guest state=absent
-
-  - name: ensure vhost /test is present
-    rabbitmq_vhost: name=/test state=present
-
-  - name: set federation local-username
-    rabbitmq_parameter: component=federation name=local-username value='"user1"' state=present
-
-  handlers:
-  - name: restart rabbitmq
-    service: name=rabbitmq-server state=restarted
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/register_logic.yml b/examples/playbooks/register_logic.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e143e472aa..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/register_logic.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# here's a cool advanced topic about how to perform conditional logic in ansible without resorting
-# to writing your own module that defines facts.  You can do that too, and it's easy to do, but
-# often you just want to run a command and then decide whether to run some steps or not.  That's
-# easy to do, and here we'll show you how.
-
-- name: test playbook
-  user: root
-  hosts: all
-
-  tasks:
-
-      # it is possible to save the result of any command in a named register.  This variable will be made
-      # available to tasks and templates made further down in the execution flow.  
-
-      - action: shell grep hi /etc/motd
-        ignore_errors: yes
-        register: motd_result
-
-      # and here we access the register.  Note that variable is structured data because
-      # it is a return from the command module.   The shell module makes available variables such as
-      # as 'stdout', 'stderr', and 'rc'.  
-
-      # here we run the next action only if the previous grep returned true
-
-      - action: shell echo "motd contains the word hi"
-        when: motd_result.rc == 0
-
-      # alternatively:
-
-      - action: shell echo "motd contains the word hi"
-        when: motd_result.stdout.find('hi') != -1
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/files/foo.txt b/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/files/foo.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b6f19a00c0..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/files/foo.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-This is a file
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/handlers/main.yml b/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/handlers/main.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 030b30f5e3a..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/handlers/main.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
----
-
-- name: blippy
-  shell: echo notifier called, and the value of x is '{{ x }}'
-
-# within a role, it's possible to include other task files as well.  By default, we
-# can reference files in the same directory without doing anything special:
-
-# - include: other.yml
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/tasks/main.yml b/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/tasks/main.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1642311f51f..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/tasks/main.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-
-- name: copy operation
-  copy: src=foo.txt dest=/tmp/roles_test1.txt
-
-- name: template operation
-  template: src=foo.j2 dest=/tmp/roles_test2.txt
-  notify:
-    - blippy
-
-- name: demo that parameterized roles work
-  shell: echo just FYI, param1={{ param1 }}, param2 ={{ param2 }}
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/templates/foo.j2 b/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/templates/foo.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 172015653fa..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/templates/foo.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-I am a {{ ansible_os_family }} distribution.
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/vars/main.yml b/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/vars/main.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 68576ba28f0..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roles/foo/vars/main.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-x: '{{ ansible_machine }}'
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roletest.yml b/examples/playbooks/roletest.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index df2b25cb80c..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roletest.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# in Ansible 1.2 and later, roles allow easy best-practices organization of content 
-# and maximize shareability of ansible building blocks.
-#
-# suppose a playbook applied to a group of hosts includes two roles, foo and bar.
-#
-# what do roles do in this case?
-#
-# listing the roles as foo and bar will auto include the following:
-#
-#    tasks    from ./roles/foo/tasks/main.yml,    then ./roles/bar/tasks/main.yml
-#    handlers from ./roles/foo/handlers/main.yml, then ./roles/bar/handlers/main.yml
-#    vars     from ./roles/foo/vars/main.yml,     then ./roles/bar/vars/main.yml
-#
-# should any of these files not exist, that is ok, and they will simply not be loaded.
-#
-# should the task file in foo/tasks/main.yml want to include subtasks in other files, that
-# is also permitted.
-#
-# templates and copy operations also get smarter about where to look for content when using
-# roles.
-# 
-# as an example, a task in foo/tasks/main.yml could copy or template a file by
-# referencing a "src=foo.j2" rather than having to explicitly path src=roles/foo/templates/foo.j2.
-
----
-
-  - hosts: all
-
-    pre_tasks:
-
-        # these tasks are executed prior to roles.
-        # this might be a good time to signal an outage window or take a host out of a load balanced pool
-
-        - local_action: shell echo "hi this is a pre_task step about {{ inventory_hostname }}"
-
-    roles:
-
-    # a role can be listed flat like this: 
-    #
-    #   - common
-    #   - webservers
-
-    # but you can also pass variables to them, so they can be parameterized.  You can call
-    # a role more than once with different parameters too.  It might look like the section
-    # below.  Note I can also declare tags at this time.
-
-      - { role: foo, param1: 1000, param2: 2000, tags: [ 'foo', 'bar' ] }
-      - { role: foo, param1: 8000, param2: 9000, tags: [ 'baz' ]  }
-
-    # add as many roles as you like, roles takes a list of roles names
-    # these paths can be qualified, but if bare, it will look from them in
-    # roles/{{rolename}} relative to the playbook
-
-    # explicit tasks and handlers can be used, but are not required.
-    # they will run after the roles if present.
-
-    tasks:
-
-        # you can still have loose tasks/handlers and they will execute after roles are applied
-
-        - shell: echo 'this is a loose task'
-
-    post_tasks:
-
-        # just to provide a syntactic mirroring to 'pre_tasks', these run absolute last in the play.
-        # this might be a good time to put a host back in a load balanced pool or end an outage window
-
-        - local_action: shell echo 'this is a post_task about {{ inventory_hostname }}'
-
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/roletest2.yml b/examples/playbooks/roletest2.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 29be1b55102..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/roletest2.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-# in Ansible 1.2 and later, roles allow easy best-practices organization of content 
-# and maximize shareability of ansible building blocks.
-#
-# suppose a playbook applied to a group of hosts includes two roles, foo and bar.
-#
-# what do roles do in this case?
-#
-# listing the roles as foo and bar will auto include the following:
-#
-#    tasks    from ./roles/foo/tasks/main.yml,    then ./roles/bar/tasks/main.yml
-#    handlers from ./roles/foo/handlers/main.yml, then ./roles/bar/handlers/main.yml
-#    vars     from ./roles/foo/vars/main.yml,     then ./roles/bar/vars/main.yml
-#
-# should any of these files not exist, that is ok, and they will simply not be loaded.
-#
-# should the task file in foo/tasks/main.yml want to include subtasks in other files, that
-# is also permitted.
-#
-# templates and copy operations also get smarter about where to look for content when using
-# roles.
-# 
-# as an example, a task in foo/tasks/main.yml could copy or template a file by
-# referencing a "src=foo.j2" rather than having to explicitly path src=roles/foo/templates/foo.j2.
-
----
-
-  - hosts: all
-    roles:
-
-    # a role can be listed flat like this: 
-    #
-    #   - common
-    #   - webservers
-
-    # but you can also pass variables to them, so they can be parameterized.  You can call
-    # a role more than once with different parameters too.  It might look like this:
-
-      - role: foo
-        param1: '{{ item }}'
-        param2: '{{ item + "/" + item }}'
-        with_items: ['a','b','c']
-        when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
-
-    # add as many roles as you like, roles takes a list of roles names
-    # these paths can be qualified, but if bare, it will look from them in
-    # roles/{{rolename}} relative to the playbook
-
-    # explicit tasks and handlers can be used, but are not required.
-    # they will run after the roles if present.
-
-    tasks:
-
-        # you can still have loose tasks/handlers and they will execute after roles
-
-        - shell: echo 'this is a loose task'
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/selective_file_sources.yml b/examples/playbooks/selective_file_sources.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f31be1019d6..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/selective_file_sources.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
----
-# this is an example of how to template a file over using some variables derived
-# from the system.  For instance, if you wanted to have different configuration
-# templates by OS version, this is a neat way to do it.  Any Ansible facts, facter facts,
-# or ohai facts could be used to do this.
-
-- hosts: all
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: template a config file
-    action: template dest=/etc/imaginary_file.conf
-    first_available_file:
-
-       # first see if we have a file for this specific host
-       - /srv/whatever/{{ansible_hostname}}.conf
-
-       # next try to load something like CentOS6.2.conf
-       - /srv/whatever/{{ansible_distribution}}{{ansible_distribution_version}}.conf
-
-       # next see if there's a CentOS.conf
-       - /srv/whatever/{{ansible_distribution}}.conf
-
-       # finally give up and just use something generic
-       - /srv/whatever/default
-
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/tags.yml b/examples/playbooks/tags.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 797d5a532a4..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/tags.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
----
-# tags allow us to run all of a playbook or part of it.
-#
-# assume: ansible-playbook tags.yml --tags foo
-#
-# try this with:
-#    --tags foo
-#    --tags bar
-#    --tags extra
-#
-# the value of a 'tags:' element can be a string or list
-# of tag names.  Variables are not usable in tag names.
-
-- name: example play one
-  hosts: all
-  user: root
-
-  # any tags applied to the play are shorthand to applying
-  # the tag to all tasks in it.  Here, each task is given
-  # the tag extra
-
-  tags:
-     - extra
-
-  tasks:
-
-  # this task will run if you don't specify any tags,
-  # if you specify 'foo' or if you specify 'extra'
-
-  - name: hi
-    tags: foo
-    action: shell echo "first task ran"
-
-- name: example play two
-  hosts: all
-  user: root
-  tasks:
-  - name: hi
-    tags:
-       - bar
-    action: shell echo "second task ran"
-  - include: tasks/base.yml tags=base
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/tasks/base.yml b/examples/playbooks/tasks/base.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1232d9f87ec..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/tasks/base.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
----
-
-# this is the example of an included tasks file.  It contains a flat list of tasks
-# they can notify other tasks, and have full access to variables from 'vars'
-# or 'vars_files' directives.  Further, if ohai or facter were installed on
-# the remote machines, variables from those tools can be accessed on the 'action'
-# line or in templates.  Just prefix with 'facter_' or 'ohai_' before the particular
-# variable.
-
-# possible uses for a included yaml file might be to represent a 'class' of a system
-# like defining what makes up a webserver, or you might have a common 'base.yml'
-# (like this) that might be applied to all your systems as well.
-
-- name: no selinux
-  action: command /usr/sbin/setenforce 0
-
-- name: no iptables
-  action: service name=iptables state=stopped
-
-- name: made up task just to show variables work here
-  action: command /bin/echo release is $release
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/templates/custom-filters.j2 b/examples/playbooks/templates/custom-filters.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 08126f958a4..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/templates/custom-filters.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-1 + 1 = {{ '1+1' | generate_answer }}
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/templates/etc_cron.d_ansible-pull.j2 b/examples/playbooks/templates/etc_cron.d_ansible-pull.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 99f7339120c..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/templates/etc_cron.d_ansible-pull.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# Cron job to git clone/pull a repo and then run locally
-{{ schedule }} {{ cron_user }} ansible-pull -d {{ workdir }} -U {{ repo_url }} >>{{ logfile }} 2>&1
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/templates/etc_logrotate.d_ansible-pull.j2 b/examples/playbooks/templates/etc_logrotate.d_ansible-pull.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index e396f31a4e5..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/templates/etc_logrotate.d_ansible-pull.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{{ logfile }} {
-  rotate 7
-  daily
-  compress
-  missingok
-  notifempty
-}
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/templates/foo.j2 b/examples/playbooks/templates/foo.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ebc7736db9..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/templates/foo.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# This is a very simple Jinja2 template representing an imaginary configuration file
-# for an imaginary app.
-
-# this is an example of loading a fact from the setup module
-system={{ ansible_system }}
-
-# here is a variable that could be set in a playbook or inventory file
-http_port={{ http_port }}
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/templates/hostvars.j2 b/examples/playbooks/templates/hostvars.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index ca8f51482ad..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/templates/hostvars.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# example of how to get the ipaddress of every machine in the webservers group
-# for use in a template
-
-{% for host in groups['webservers'] %}
-  HOST: {{ host }} IP: {{ hostvars[host]['ansible_all_ipv4_addresses'][0] }}
-{% endfor %}
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/upgraded_vars.yml b/examples/playbooks/upgraded_vars.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index fdbf5795320..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/upgraded_vars.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# this just shows some tricks possible with variables in Ansible 1.2 and later.
-
----
-
-  - hosts: all
-
-    vars:
-      a_list:
-        - a 
-        - b
-        - c
-
-    tasks:
-      - shell: echo hello {{ ansible_hostname.upper() }}
-
-      - shell: echo match
-        when: 2 == 2
-
-      - shell: echo no match
-        when: 2 == 2 + 1
-
-      - shell: echo {{ ansible_os_family }}
-
-      - shell: echo {{ item }}
-        with_items: a_list
-
-      - shell: echo 'RedHat'
-        when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
-
-
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/user_commands.yml b/examples/playbooks/user_commands.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d5a792eb3a..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/user_commands.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
----
-# this is a demo of how the user commands work and how to reference salted passwords
-# in vars sections.  You could also use vars_files if you like (see other examples)
-
-- hosts: all
-  user: root
-  vars:
-    # created with:
-    # python -c 'import crypt; print crypt.crypt("This is my Password", "$1$SomeSalt$")'
-    password: $1$SomeSalt$UqddPX3r4kH3UL5jq5/ZI.
-
-  tasks:
-
-    # Walk through account creation, modification, and deletion
-    - name: test basic user account creation
-      action: user name=tset comment=TsetUser group=users shell=/sbin/nologin createhome=no
-
-    # the following is just a simple example of how you don't have to include
-    # the 'name' element for each task
-
-    - action: user name=tset comment=NyetUser
-    - action: user name=tset password={{password}}
-
-    # The following will add the user to supplementary groups.
-
-    # Add the user to the groups dialout and uucp.
-    - action: user name=tset groups=dialout,uucp
-
-    # Add the user to the groups dialout and wheel,
-    # This will remove tset from the group uucp.
-    - action: user name=tset groups=dialout,wheel
-
-    # Add the user to the group uucp.  Because append=yes, the user
-    # will not be removed from the groups dialout and wheel.
-    - action: user name=tset groups=uucp append=yes
-
-    # Finally, remove the user.
-    - action: user name=tset state=absent
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/vars/CentOS.yml b/examples/playbooks/vars/CentOS.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index b75cf94e8a8..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/vars/CentOS.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-apache: httpd
-packager: yum
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/vars/defaults.yml b/examples/playbooks/vars/defaults.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a04c435bd1..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/vars/defaults.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-packager: apt
-apache: apache
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/vars/external_vars.yml b/examples/playbooks/vars/external_vars.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index ebc76961bf5..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/vars/external_vars.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-alpha: one
-beta: two
diff --git a/examples/playbooks/zfs.yml b/examples/playbooks/zfs.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e0282ee9b7..00000000000
--- a/examples/playbooks/zfs.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
----
-##
-# Example Ansible playbook that uses the Zfs module.
-#
-
-- hosts: webservers
-  gather_facts: no
-  sudo: yes
-
-  vars:
-    pool: rpool
-
-  tasks:
-
-  - name: Create a zfs file system
-    action: zfs name={{pool}}/var/log/httpd state=present 
-
-  - name: Create a zfs file system with quota of 10GiB and visible snapdir
-    action: zfs name={{pool}}/ansible quota='10G' snapdir=visible state=present
-
-  - name: Crate zfs snapshot of the above file system
-    action: zfs name={{pool}}/ansible@mysnapshot state=present 
-
-  - name: Create zfs volume named smallvol with a size of 10MiB
-    action: zfs name={{pool}}/smallvol volsize=10M state=present
-
-  - name: Removes snapshot of rpool/oldfs
-    action: zfs name={{pool}}/oldfs@oldsnapshot state=absent
-
-  - name: Removes file system rpool/oldfs
-    action: zfs name={{pool}}/oldfs state=absent
-
-