updated to allow deployment to be driven by a configuration file
diff --git a/roles/head-node/vars/main.yml b/roles/head-node/vars/main.yml
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+++ b/roles/head-node/vars/main.yml
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+provision:
+    # CHANGE:
+    #   'location'   git URL from which to clone a repository that contains the role
+    #                definitions to be used then provisioning a compute node
+    #   'role_path'  directory path within the repo that contains the roles.
+    #   'role'       name of the role to provision for new compute nodes
+    location: "{{ prov_location | default('http://gerrit.opencord.org/maas') }}"
+    role_path: "{{ prov_role_path | default('roles') }}"
+    role: "{{ prov_role | default('compute-node') }}"