diff --git a/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible-local.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible-local.html.markdown index aa2641db2..d7ed58846 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible-local.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible-local.html.markdown @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ uploaded from your local machine to the remote machine. Ansible is run in [local mode](http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_delegation.html#local-playbooks) via the `ansible-playbook` command. +-> **Note:** Ansible will *not* be installed automatically by this +provisioner. This provisioner expects that Ansible is already installed on the +machine. It is common practice to use the [shell +provisioner](/docs/provisioners/shell.html) before the Ansible provisioner to do +this. + ## Basic Example The example below is fully functional.