- make it easy to run playbooks against cloud instances w/o modifying inventory or changing host entries in playbooks - make it clear how to run as root from lockbox - make path dests work correctly globally - define standards for: - playbook naming - play naming - hosts or service or groups for talking to sets of systems - tags: - config - service - initonly - figure out how and where we are going to run these from cron - common ssh key for all systems to be hit from - merge in tasks/playbooks/inventory/etc from: - euca cloud - builders - make a place to put scripts used in this whole process