diff --git a/playbooks/manual/push-badges.yml b/playbooks/manual/push-badges.yml
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-# Push out any new badge stuff.
-#
-# Badge artists and badge developers should be pushing stuff to this repo:
-#
-#   https://pagure.io/fedora-badges.git
-#
-# This playbook will take any new content from there and push it out onto our
-# servers.
-
-- name: get the badges repo happening from the batcave
-  hosts: batcave01.iad2.fedoraproject.org
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: False
-
-  vars_files:
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-
-  vars:
-   upstream: "https://pagure.io/fedora-badges.git"
-   workingdir: /srv/web/infra/badges/
-   local_repo: /srv/git/badges
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: Make a tmp directory
-    tempfile:
-      state: directory
-      suffix: _badges_tempdir
-    register: tmp
-
-  - set_fact:
-      tempdir: "{{tmp.path}}"
-
-  - name: clone the local bare repo
-    git:
-      dest: "{{tempdir}}"
-      repo: "{{local_repo}}"
-      remote: origin
-      update: yes
-
-  - name: add pagure as a second remote
-    command: git remote add pagure {{upstream}}
-    args:
-      chdir: "{{tempdir}}"
-
-  - name: pull down changes from pagure
-    command: git pull pagure master 
-    args: 
-      chdir: "{{tempdir}}"
-
-  - name: push pagure changes back to the lockbox bare repo
-    command: git push origin master 
-    args:
-      chdir: "{{tempdir}}"
-
-  - name: clean up that temporary {{tempdir}} dir
-    file: 
-      dest: "{{tempdir}}" 
-      state: absent
-
-  - name: fix the working dir repo to use the right location
-    command: git remote set-url origin {{local_repo}}
-    args:
-      chdir: "{{workingdir}}"
- 
-  - name: and pull those commits from the bare repo to the working dir
-    command: git pull origin master
-    args:
-      chdir: "{{workingdir}}"
-
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-- name: copy new badge art over to the badges web nodes
-  hosts: badges_web:badges_web_stg
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: False
-
-  vars_files:
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-
-  roles:
-   - badges/frontend
-
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-- name: copy any new badges rules over to the badges backend and restart it
-  hosts: badges_backend:badges_backend_stg
-  user: root
-  gather_facts: False
-
-  vars_files:
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-
-  roles:
-   - badges/backend
-
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-- name: run  /usr/local/bin/update_checkout.sh
-  hosts: badges_web
-
-  tasks:
-  - command:  /usr/local/bin/update_checkout.sh
diff --git a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/badges.yml b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/badges.yml
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-- name: push packages out to frontend
-  hosts: badges_web:badges_web_stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files: 
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-  vars:
-    testing: False
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: clean all metadata {%if testing%}(with infrastructure-testing on){%endif%}
-    command: yum clean all {%if testing%} --enablerepo=infrastructure-tags-stg {%endif%}
-    check_mode: no
-  - name: update tahrir/badges packages from main repo
-    package:
-      name:
-      - python-tahrir
-      - python-tahrir-api
-      state: latest
-    when: not testing
-  - name: update tahrir/badges packages from testing repo
-    yum:
-      name:
-      - python-tahrir
-      - python-tahrir-api
-      state: latest
-      enablerepo: infrastructure-tags-stg
-    when: testing
-
-- name: push packages out to backend
-  hosts: badges_backend:badges_backend_stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files: 
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-  vars:
-    testing: False
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: clean all metadata {%if testing%}(with infrastructure-testing on){%endif%}
-    command: yum clean all {%if testing%} --enablerepo=infrastructure-tags-stg {%endif%}
-    check_mode: no
-  - name: update tahrir/badges packages from main repo
-    package:
-      name:
-      - python-fedbadges
-      - python-tahrir-api
-      state: latest
-    when: not testing
-  - name: update tahrir/badges packages from testing repo
-    yum:
-      name:
-      - python-fedbadges
-      - python-tahrir-api
-      state: latest
-      enablerepo: infrastructure-tags-stg
-    when: testing
-
-- name: verify the frontend and stop it
-  hosts: badges_web:badges_web_stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files: 
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-  pre_tasks:
-  - name: tell nagios to shush w.r.t. the frontend
-    nagios: action=downtime minutes=15 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
-    delegate_to: noc01.iad2.fedoraproject.org
-    ignore_errors: true
-
-  roles:
-  - badges/frontend
-
-  post_tasks:
-  - service: name="httpd" state=stopped
-
-- name: verify the backend, stop it, and then upgrade the db
-  hosts: badges_backend:badges_backend_stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files: 
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-  pre_tasks:
-  - name: tell nagios to shush w.r.t. the backend
-    nagios: action=downtime minutes=15 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
-    delegate_to: noc01.iad2.fedoraproject.org
-    ignore_errors: true
-
-  roles:
-  - badges/backend
-
-  tasks:
-  - name: Stop the badges backend
-    service: name="fedmsg-hub" state=stopped
-
-  - name: Upgrade the database
-    command: /usr/bin/alembic -c /usr/share/tahrir_api/alembic.ini upgrade head
-    args:
-      chdir: /usr/share/tahrir_api/
-    ignore_errors: true
-
-  - name: And... start the backend again
-    service: name="fedmsg-hub" state=started
-
-  post_tasks:
-  - name: tell nagios to unshush w.r.t. the backend
-    nagios: action=unsilence service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
-    delegate_to: noc01.iad2.fedoraproject.org
-    ignore_errors: true
-
-- name: restart the frontend
-  hosts: badges_web:badges_web_stg
-  user: root
-  vars_files: 
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/global.yml
-   - "/srv/private/ansible/vars.yml"
-   - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
-  handlers:
-  - import_tasks: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
-
-  tasks:
-  - service: name="httpd" state=started
-
-  post_tasks:
-  - name: tell nagios to unshush w.r.t. the frontend
-    nagios: action=unsilence service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
-    delegate_to: noc01.iad2.fedoraproject.org
-    ignore_errors: true