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 Before you can run this, a few things are assumed:
 
 - You have a clean, minimal Debian 9, Ubuntu 16.04, or Ubuntu 18.04 host up and running
+- Python 2 is installed on the remote server (requirement of Ansible)
 - You have a user account with password-less SSH access to the machine
 - You have sudo privileges on the remote host
 - You have created a `hosts` file with something like: