Installing and running Ansible

Let’s dive straight in and install Ansible. Throughout this book, I will assume you are running a macOS host machine or a Linux machine with an Ubuntu LTS release. While we will cover running Ansible on Windows 11 using the Linux subsystem for Windows, this book will not support using Windows as a host machine.

Installing on macOS

You can install Ansible on your macOS host machine in a few different ways. I will cover both here. As we are discussing two different ways of installing Ansible, I recommend reading through this section and the Pros and cons subsection before choosing which installation method to use on your local machine.

Installing with Homebrew

The first installation method is to use a package manager called Homebrew.

Note

Homebrew is a package manager of macOS. It can be used to install command-line tools and desktop packages. It describes itself as “The missing package manager for macOS”, and it usually...