Installing the required tools

python3, pip3, and virtualenv are the prerequisites to execute the Ansible configuration playbooks that we will develop in this chapter. If you do not have these tools installed on your system, you can follow these instructions:

• Execute the following commands to install python3, pip3, and virtualenv on Ubuntu Linux:

  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install python3
  $ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
  $ sudo pip3 install virtualenv

• Execute the following commands to install python3, pip3, and virtualenv on Amazon Linux 2:

  $ sudo yum update
  $ sudo yum install python3
  $ sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
  $ sudo python3 -m pip install virtualenv

• Execute the following commands to install python3, pip3, and virtualenv on macOS:

  $ brew install python3
  $ curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
  $ sudo python3 get-pip.py
  $ sudo -H pip3 install virtualenv

• Execute the following commands to install python3, pip3, and virtualenv on Windows...