Install Ansible

Ansible is not in the default RHEL 7 repositories, but in this recipe, I will show you how to install it in several ways.

Getting ready

Ansible needs the following packages installed:

• Python v2.7 (Ansible doesn't support v3 yet)
• python-httplib2
• python-jinja2
• python-paramiko
• python-setuptools
• PyYAML

So, in order to achieve this, execute the following command:

~]# yum install -y python-httplib2 python-jinja2 python-keyczar python-paramiko python-setuptools PyYAML

As RHEL 7 and some other major distributions come preinstalled with Python (yum requires it, as do most of the Red Hat tools), we don't have to include it in the preceding command.

How to do it…

In this recipe, I will cover the three most used methods of installing Ansible.

Installing the latest tarball

This method is quite simple as you just download the tarball and extract it in a location of your choosing. Perform the following steps:

1. Grab the latest tarball located at http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ via...