Installation

What Will Be Installed

Installing the Control Machine
i. Latest Release Via Yum
ii. Latest Releases Via Apt (Ubuntu)

Basics / What Will Be Installed

Latest Release Via Yum

Latest Releases Via Apt (Ubuntu)

asics / What Will Be Installed

Ansible by default manages machines over the SSH protocol. Once Ansible is installed, it will not add a
will be no daemons to start or keep running. You only need to install it on one machine (which could e
can manage an entire fleet of remote machines from that central point. When Ansible manages remot
leave software installed or running on them, so theres no real question about how to upgrade Ansible
version.

atest Release Via Yum

RPMs are available from yum for EPEL 6, 7, and currently supported Fedora distributions. Ansible itself
operating systems that contain Python 2.4 or higher (so also EL5). Fedora users can install Ansible dire
using RHEL or CentOS and have not already done so, configure EPEL
# install the epel-release RPM if needed on CentOS, RHEL, or Scientific Linux
$ sudo yum install ansible

atest Releases Via Apt (Ubuntu)

To configure the PPA on your machine and install ansible run these commands:
$
$
$
$

sudo
sudo
sudo
sudo

apt-get install software-properties-common

apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
apt-get update
apt-get install ansible