Installing Ansible on Ubuntu

Wha’ts Ansible?

Ansible is an open source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes. It is free to use, and the project benefits from the experience and intelligence of its thousands of contributors.

Installing Ansible

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

Checking Ansible version

sudo ansible --version

ansible [core 2.12.10]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Jan 17 2025, 14:40:23) [GCC 9.4.0]
  jinja version = 2.10.1
  libyaml = True

Adding hosts

vi /etc/ansible/hosts

[ubuntu]
server1
server2
server3
server4

[redhat]
server1
server2
server3
server4

Sources

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What is Ansible? https://www.redhat.com/en/ansible-collaborative

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