Installing Ansible

Ansible itself is cross-platform. The basic installation of the Ansible system is actually fairly easy. Before we can install it, we need to get the Ansible runtime packages. Ansible is available for consumption via the following online solutions:

• Yum (Red Hat Linux-based distributions)
• Apt (Debian)
• Apt (Ubuntu)
• Portage (Gentoo)
• Pkg (FreeBSD)
• macOS (dmg)
• OpenCSW (Solaris)
• Pacman (Arch Linux)
• Pip (Python)
• Tarball (Source)
• Source (Source)

The following is a set of examples and command-line syntaxes for each of the listed options. These commands will help you get up-and-running with Ansible quickly (they are taken from the Ansible website).