Ansible - Installation - Version 2.7 on Linux

About

How to install Ansible on Linux.

Steps

using the OS package manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (TM), CentOS, Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu, we recommend
using Pip

Python installation

Ansible’s “raw” module don’t even need Python installed. So technically, you can use Ansible to install a compatible version of Python using the raw module, which then allows you to use everything else.

Example:

ansible host-pattern --become -m raw -a "yum install -y python2"

Interpreter

By default, Ansible uses the python interpreter located at /usr/bin/python to run its modules.

If it's not the case, you can set the ansible_python_interpreter inventory variable to point at your interpreter

Azure

See Install Ansible

Ubuntu

## Install pre-requisite packages
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev python-pip

## Install Ansible and Azure SDKs via pip
sudo pip install ansible[azure]

Centos

sudo yum check-update; sudo yum install -y gcc libffi-devel python-devel openssl-devel epel-release
sudo yum install -y python-pip python-wheel

Test if Ansible is installed

From Ansible task …?

- name: Install ansible
  yum: pkg=ansible state=installed

Verification

pip show ansible

---
Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: ansible
Version: 2.7.1
Summary: Radically simple IT automation
Home-page: https://ansible.com/
Author: Ansible, Inc.
Author-email: [email protected]
License: GPLv3+
Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requires:
Classifiers:
  Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
  Environment :: Console
  Intended Audience :: Developers
  Intended Audience :: Information Technology
  Intended Audience :: System Administrators
  License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)
  Natural Language :: English
  Operating System :: POSIX
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2
  Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
  Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
  Topic :: System :: Installation/Setup
  Topic :: System :: Systems Administration
  Topic :: Utilities

Docker

Support

“module_stdout”: “/bin/sh: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory\r\n”

Verify your interpreter