Installing and configuring Ansible
Ansible is written in Python and, as such, can be run on a wide range of systems. This includes the most popular flavors of Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS. The one exception to this is Windows, where though native Python distributions exist, there is as yet no native Ansible build. As a result, your best option at the time of writing is to install Ansible under WSL, proceeding as if you were running on a native Linux host.
Once you have established the system on which you wish to run Ansible, the installation process is normally simple. In the following sections, we will discuss how to install Ansible on a wide range of different systems so that most readers should be able to get up and running with Ansible in a matter of minutes.
Understanding Ansible version numbers
When the previous edition of this book was published, Ansible followed a relatively simple version numbering scheme. All releases of Ansible included all the modules, plugins, and...
