diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/epel/ansible_install.rb b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/epel/ansible_install.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ae10b091..000000000
--- a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/epel/ansible_install.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-
-module VagrantPlugins
-  module Ansible
-    module Cap
-      module Guest
-        module EPEL # Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (for RedHat-family distributions)
-          module AnsibleInstall
-
-            # This should work on recent Fedora releases, and any other members of the
-            # RedHat family which supports YUM and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
-            def self.ansible_install(machine)
-
-              configure_epel = <<INLINE_CRIPT
-cat <<EOM >/etc/yum.repos.d/epel-bootstrap.repo
-[epel]
-name=Bootstrap EPEL
-mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-\$releasever&arch=\$basearch
-failovermethod=priority
-enabled=0
-gpgcheck=0
-EOM
-
-yum --assumeyes --quiet --enablerepo=epel install epel-release
-rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-bootstrap.repo
-INLINE_CRIPT
-
-              ansible_is_installable = machine.communicate.execute("yum info ansible", :error_check => false)
-              if ansible_is_installable != 0
-                machine.communicate.sudo(configure_epel)
-              end
-              machine.communicate.sudo("yum --assumeyes --quiet --enablerepo=epel install ansible")
-            end
-
-          end
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/fedora/ansible_install.rb b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/fedora/ansible_install.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..badaace03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/fedora/ansible_install.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+
+module VagrantPlugins
+  module Ansible
+    module Cap
+      module Guest
+        module Fedora
+          module AnsibleInstall
+
+            def self.ansible_install(machine)
+              if dnf?(machine)
+                machine.communicate.sudo("dnf -y install ansible")
+              else
+                machine.communicate.sudo("yum -y install ansible")
+              end
+            end
+
+            def self.dnf?(machine)
+              machine.communicate.test("/usr/bin/which -s dnf")
+            end
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/redhat/ansible_install.rb b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/redhat/ansible_install.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e17908e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/cap/guest/redhat/ansible_install.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+
+module VagrantPlugins
+  module Ansible
+    module Cap
+      module Guest
+        module RedHat
+          module AnsibleInstall
+
+            # This should work on recent Fedora releases, and any other members of the
+            # RedHat family which supports YUM and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
+            def self.ansible_install(machine)
+
+              epel = machine.communicate.execute("#{yum_dnf(machine)} repolist epel | grep -q epel", :error_check => false)
+              if epel != 0
+                machine.communicate.sudo('sudo rpm -i https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-`rpm -E %dist | sed -n \'s/.*el\([0-9]\).*/\1/p\'`.noarch.rpm')
+              end
+
+              machine.communicate.sudo("#{yum_dnf(machine)} -y --enablerepo=epel install ansible")
+            end
+
+            def self.yum_dnf(machine)
+              machine.communicate.test("/usr/bin/which -s dnf") ? "dnf" : "yum"
+            end
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/plugin.rb b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/plugin.rb
index 3be60f8ad..b0e0aa0ed 100644
--- a/plugins/provisioners/ansible/plugin.rb
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/ansible/plugin.rb
@@ -55,9 +55,14 @@ module VagrantPlugins
         Cap::Guest::Ubuntu::AnsibleInstall
       end
 
+      guest_capability(:fedora, :ansible_install) do
+        require_relative "cap/guest/fedora/ansible_install"
+        Cap::Guest::Fedora::AnsibleInstall
+      end
+
       guest_capability(:redhat, :ansible_install) do
-        require_relative "cap/guest/epel/ansible_install"
-        Cap::Guest::EPEL::AnsibleInstall
+        require_relative "cap/guest/redhat/ansible_install"
+        Cap::Guest::RedHat::AnsibleInstall
       end
 
       guest_capability(:suse, :ansible_install) do