diff --git a/ansible/environments/local/group_vars/all b/ansible/environments/local/group_vars/all
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--- a/ansible/environments/local/group_vars/all
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-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-whisk_version_name: local
-config_root_dir: /tmp/wskconf
-whisk_logs_dir: /tmp/wsklogs
-docker_registry: ""
-docker_dns: ""
-
-db_prefix: whisk_local_
-
-# Auto lookup to find the db credentials
-db_provider: "{{ lookup('ini', 'db_provider section=db_creds file={{ playbook_dir }}/db_local.ini') }}"
-db_username: "{{ lookup('ini', 'db_username section=db_creds file={{ playbook_dir }}/db_local.ini') }}"
-db_password: "{{ lookup('ini', 'db_password section=db_creds file={{ playbook_dir }}/db_local.ini') }}"
-db_protocol: "{{ lookup('ini', 'db_protocol section=db_creds file={{ playbook_dir }}/db_local.ini') }}"
-db_host: "{{ lookup('ini', 'db_host section=db_creds file={{ playbook_dir }}/db_local.ini') }}"
-db_port: "{{ lookup('ini', 'db_port section=db_creds file={{ playbook_dir }}/db_local.ini') }}"
-
-# API GW connection configuration
-apigw_auth_user: ""
-apigw_auth_pwd: ""
-apigw_host_v2: "http://{{ groups['apigateway']|first }}:{{apigateway.port.api}}/v2"
-
-controller_arguments: '-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1098'
-invoker_arguments: "{{ controller_arguments }}"
-
-invoker_allow_multiple_instances: true
-
-# Set kafka topic retention
-kafka_heap: '512m'
-kafka_topics_completed_retentionBytes: 104857600
-kafka_topics_completed_retentionMS: 300000
-kafka_topics_health_retentionBytes: 104857600
-kafka_topics_health_retentionMS: 300000
-kafka_topics_invoker_retentionBytes: 104857600
-kafka_topics_invoker_retentionMS: 300000
-
-env_hosts_dir: "{{ playbook_dir }}/environments/local"
diff --git a/ansible/environments/local/hosts b/ansible/environments/local/hosts
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--- a/ansible/environments/local/hosts
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@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-;
-; Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor
-; license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
-; information regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file to you
-; under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the # "License"); you may not use this
-; file except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License
-; at:
-;
-; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-;
-; Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed
-; under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR
-; CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-; specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
-;
-; the first parameter in a host is the inventory_hostname
-
-; used for local actions only
-ansible ansible_connection=local
-
-[edge]
-172.17.0.1          ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local
-
-[controllers]
-controller0         ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local
-
-[kafkas]
-kafka0              ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local
-
-[zookeepers:children]
-kafkas
-
-[invokers]
-invoker0            ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local
-
-; db group is only used if db_provider is CouchDB
-[db]
-172.17.0.1          ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local
-
-[redis]
-172.17.0.1          ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local
-
-[apigateway]
-172.17.0.1          ansible_host=172.17.0.1 ansible_connection=local