Installing Ansible

Let's dive straight in and install Ansible. Throughout this book, I will be assuming that you are running a macOS host machine running macOS High Sierra or a Linux machine with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed. While we will cover running Ansible on Windows 10 Professional using the Linux subsystem for Windows, using Windows as a host machine will not be supported in this book.

Installing on macOS

There are a few different ways you can install Ansible on your macOS High Sierra host machine. I will cover them both.

As we are discussing two different ways of installing Ansible, I would recommend reading through this section and also the Pros and cons section at the end before choosing which installation method...