This blog post will show you how to install Ansible on Ubuntu Server 20.04 host. The installed version will be 2.9.6.
Requirements
The requirements to install Ansible are minimal, and all you need is Python 2.7 (If using version 2) or Python 3.5 (if using version 3). The server that will run Ansible is also called a control node.
Install
Below are all the commands you need to run to install Ansible on your Ubuntu server 20.04.
sudo apt update sudo apt install software-properties-common sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible sudo apt install ansible
By default Ansible will use the following directories:
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = ['/home/shimon/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
To verifiy and confirum that the installation was secuesfull, run the following command.
ansible --version
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