Installing Ansible
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Gineesh Madapparambath
- Ansible, Ansible course, Automation
- June 8, 2018
You may refer installation doc from official document as well.
Requirement
Controlnodes
Controlnode is just the machine where we install the Ansible program and will contain copies of your project file including ansible playbooks. It can be a workstation, a virtual machine or a dedicated server in the environment.
- No specific HW requirements for control node server
Linux/Unix systems only (Windows not currently supported) Software
- Ansible (ansible.com/get-started)
- Python 2.6 or later
- Python2-winrm (0.2.2 or later) provides pywinrm python package
Managed Hosts
These are listed servers or nodes in the inventory – defined as static or via dynamic inventory scripts – on which Ansible commands or playbook tasks need to be executed.
Linux
- Linux managed hosts need to have Python 2 (2.4 or later) installed for most modules to work.
- python-simplejson (if old RHEL5)
- libselinux=python (if SELinux is enabled)
Windows
- Most of the modules specifically designed for Microsoft Windows hosts require PowerShell 3.0 or higher on the managed host rather than Python.
- PowerShell remoting enabled.
Installing Ansible
Check installed python version
yum list installed python
Install Ansible
yum install -y ansible
Test installed version
[devops@ansible-box dep-install]$ ansible --version
ansible 2.3.1.0
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
python version = 2.7.5 (default, Aug 2 2016, 04:20:16) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)]
Other Methods Ansible can be installed via “pip”, the Python package manager. If ‘pip’ isn’t already available in your version of Python, you can get pip by:
$ sudo easy_install pip
Then install Ansible with
$ sudo pip install ansible
PPA Repo
$ sudo apt-get install ansible
If CentOS, configure EPEL repo (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux)
sudo yum -y install epel-release
Want to know more about Ansible ? Read next part on Deploying Ansible
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Gineesh Madapparambath
Gineesh Madapparambath is the founder of techbeatly. He is the co-author of The Kubernetes Bible, Second Edition and the author of Ansible for Real Life Automation. He has worked as a Systems Engineer, Automation Specialist, and content author. His primary focus is on Ansible Automation, Containerisation (OpenShift & Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). (Read more: iamgini.com)
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