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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The role soctools_server makes sure that docker	is properly installed on the ser
 
 Run the ansible playbook:
 
-  ansible-playbook -i inventories/deploy/hosts.yml deploy.yml
+`ansible-playbook -i inventories/deploy/hosts.yml deploy.yml`
 
 This will install the following docker images:
  * zookeeper:latest
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Building images
 
 Images that are not offical Docker images can be built from scratch by running:
 
-   ansible-playbook -i inventories/build/hosts.yml build_images.yml
+`ansible-playbook -i inventories/build/hosts.yml build_images.yml`
 
 Edit the files under inventories/deploy/group_vars to specify that built images should be used. Currently only NiFi is built from scratch.