Ansible Installation and Configuration Guide

How to install ansible in Ubuntu?

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
$ sudo apt install ansible

How to install ansible in Centos 7 / RHEL 7?

# Upgrade Python to 3.11
$ yup update
$ yum install openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel
$ yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
$ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.0/Python-3.11.0a4.tgz
$ tar -xzf Python-3.11.0a4.tgz
$ cd Python-3.11.0a4
$ ./configure --enable-optimizations
$ make altinstall
$ python3.11 -V

$ sudo ln -fs /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python
$ sudo ln -fs /usr/local/bin/python3.11 /usr/bin/python3

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ python get-pip.py
$ pip install ansible

How to install ansible in Centos 8 / RHEL 8?

# On RHEL and CentOS:

$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install ansible

# To enable the Ansible Engine repository for RHEL 8, run the following command:
$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable ansible-2.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

# To enable the Ansible Engine repository for RHEL 7, run the following command:
$ sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-ansible-2.9-rpms

How to install ansible in Centos / RHEL – OLD Methods?

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