Installation setup of ansible in linux step by step guide

Installation Setup Of Ansible on Linux | In this article we learn about the installation setup of ansible

Two types of machines are required to create ansible deployment setup

Control machine: Ansible needs to install on one machine.This machine is called control machine.

Remote machine: need to define the systems in the inventory file (which is the text file) on which configuration will done.Overall we can say which machine is controlled by control machine is called remote machine.

Many remote machines are handled by one controlling machine. For that purpose we need to install ansible on the controlling machine.

Installation Requirement to setup ansible

Python2 and Python3 must be installed to run the ansible.

NOTE:Windows isn’t supported for the control machine

Ansible does not required database and does not required any daemon to run the ansible service .Ansible connect to the remote nodes through ssh by default.

How to install ansible on centos 7/rhel 7/Ubuntu 16.04

To install the ansible package on rhel machine you need to enable epel repo.

After install and enabling epel repository, we can install Ansible using below command.

yum install ansible -y

installation setup of ansible

After running the above command you can manage remote machine through ansible.

In Ubuntu there is no need to install extra repository. By default ansible package is available in Ubuntu. We can install ansible in Ubuntu using the below command.

apt-get install ansible -y

After installing ansible we can verify the version of ansible by hitting the below command.

ansible --version