In this recipe, we'll set up an Ansible control server and demonstrate some basic Ansible commands. We'll run some basic commands using Ansible to gain an understanding of the fundamentals.
Installing Ansible
Getting ready
In order to complete this recipe, you'll need a Python 2.7 development environment. For the purposes of this recipe, we used Ubuntu 16.04, which ships by default with Python 3 out of the box, but Python 2.7 is also available from the Ubuntu repositories.
How to do it...
We're going to install Ansible on our management host and then...