Now that we know a little about the background of Ansible, we will work on installing it and, once installed, we will run our first set of playbooks against a test virtual machine running CentOS 7.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- How to install Ansible on macOS and Linux
- Running Ansible on Windows 10 Professional using the Linux subsystem
- Launching a test virtual machine
- An introduction to playbooks