
From Newton onwards we're able to take advantage of the Ansible package module, instead of conditionally executing the apt or yum module. Implementing this is an optimisation which we can do in master and backport to stable/newton, reducing the execution time. Reference: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/package_module.html Change-Id: I86f152d2e59b783cb8828fa6af82ebfb3d7ce7e5 Related-Bug: #1642654