How to install ansible in your Linux or Mac OS system ?

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Today we will look how to install ansible on our Linux system using pip or pip3 command.

To understand the installation process, lets have a look step by step.

1. Upgrade your PIP install.

user@ngelinux$ pip3 install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0f/74/ecd13431bcc456ed390b44c8a6e917c1820365cbebcb6a8974d1cd045ab4/pip-10.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.3MB)
    100% |################################| 1.3MB 333kB/s 
Installing collected packages: pip
  Found existing installation: pip 9.0.3
    Uninstalling pip-9.0.3:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.3
Successfully installed pip-10.0.1
user@ngelinux$

2. Uninstall any older version of ansible.

user@ngelinux$ pip3 uninstall ansible
Uninstalling ansible-2.5.3:
  Would remove:
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-config
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-connection
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-console
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-doc
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-galaxy
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-inventory
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-playbook
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-pull
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-vault
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible-2.5.3-py3.6.egg-info
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/*
Proceed (y/n)? y
  Successfully uninstalled ansible-2.5.3
user@ngelinux$

3. Install latest version of ansible.

user@ngelinux$ pip3  install ansible
Collecting ansible
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/20/c1/2a1a6104f7660b5d6b9876ea351f24212c19ce17c03771baf94f1c81d13b/ansible-2.5.3.tar.gz (10.1MB)
    100% |################################| 10.1MB 1.8MB/s 
Requirement already satisfied: jinja2 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible) (2.10)
Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible) (3.12)
Requirement already satisfied: paramiko in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible) (2.4.1)
Requirement already satisfied: cryptography in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible) (2.2.2)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from ansible) (39.0.1)
Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=0.23 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from jinja2->ansible) (1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyasn1>=0.1.7 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from paramiko->ansible) (0.4.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pynacl>=1.0.1 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from paramiko->ansible) (1.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: bcrypt>=3.1.3 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from paramiko->ansible) (3.1.4)
Requirement already satisfied: idna>=2.1 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible) (2.6)
Requirement already satisfied: asn1crypto>=0.21.0 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible) (0.24.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.4.1 in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible) (1.11.0)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi>=1.7; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy" in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cryptography->ansible) (1.11.5)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from cffi>=1.7; platform_python_implementation != "PyPy"->cryptography->ansible) (2.18)
Installing collected packages: ansible
  Running setup.py install for ansible ... done
Successfully installed ansible-2.5.3
user@ngelinux$

4. Create executable link of “ansible” binary in /usr/local/bin directory to have it in $PATH variable.

user@ngelinux$ ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible /usr/local/bin/ansible
user@ngelinux$ ansible --version
ansible 2.5.3
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/var/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.6.5 (v3.6.5:f59c0932b4, Mar 28 2018, 03:03:55) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
user@ngelinux$

5. Create link of ansible-playbook to /usr/local/bin.

user@ngelinux$ ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/ansible-playbook /usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook
user@ngelinux$ ansible-playbook --version 
ansible-playbook 2.5.3
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/var/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 3.6.5 (v3.6.5:f59c0932b4, Mar 28 2018, 03:03:55) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]
user@ngelinux$

6.Now go to your home directory and create two files say “host” containing list of hosts, and “test.yml” i.e. the YML script file containing the instructions.

user@ngelinux$ ls -ltr
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 saket1447583  staff  19 May 21 21:33 host
-rw-r--r--  1 saket1447583  staff   0 May 21 21:33 test1.yml
user@ngelinux$

Now you can write instructions in the yml file and let the ansible-playbook command execute it.

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Saket Jain
Saket Jain
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6 years ago

In case pip is not available, we need to install it like below in Mac OS where python 2.7.10 is installed. $ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o getpip.py % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1604k 100 1604k 0 0 224k 0 0:00:07 0:00:07 –:–:– 407k $ ls getpip.py $ $ sudo python getpip.py The directory ‘/Users/ngelinux/Library/Caches/pip/http’ or its parent directory is not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you may… Read more »

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