Installing Ansible

There are several ways to install Ansible. We will be cloning the full repository from Git and then installing it. The following are the steps:

1. Log in to the EC2 console (the steps have already been provided in Chapter 2, Building Your Own Custom VPC, in recipe, Managing EC2 instances).

2. Launch an EC2 server (the steps have already been provided in Chapter 2, Building Your Own Custom VPC, in recipe, Managing EC2 instances).

EC2 Server

3. Log in to the server.

EC2 Linux Server Login

4. Install Ansible (RHEL/Ubuntu).
5. Change the hostname.

[root@ip-172-31-18-87 ~] # hostname ansible

6. Check whether Python is installed with 2.x version (because a version below 2.x is not compatible with Ansible).

[root@ansible ~]# python -V
Python 2.7.12

7. Enable the EPEL repository on Amazon Linux. Go to your yum.repos.d folder and enable epel.repo(modify enabled=0 to enabled=1).

[root@ansible ansible]# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo

Enable EPEL Repo

8. Type – esc :wq.
9. Follow the following steps to install Ansible:

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