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+# Conjur Ansible Role
+
+This Ansible role provides the ability to grant Conjur machine identity to a host.
+Once a host has an identity created by this role, secrets can be retrieved securely
+using the [Summon](https://github.com/cyberark/summon) tool.
+
+For full usage and installation instructions, please see our
+[collection documentation](https://github.com/cyberark/ansible-conjur-collection#installation).