Installing and configuring Ansible for OpenStack
Ansible has relatively few prerequisites that are not installed on most Linux- and macOS-based systems. However, there are a few steps to follow before we can use Ansible for managing our OpenStack environment.
Getting ready
Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client and can access the OpenStack environment. Refer to Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, for details of setting up your environment to use OpenStack.
The version of Ansible 2.x requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. Most modern Linux distributions and macOS/OS X have this already installed. If you were able to successfully execute the openstack commands as described in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, then you're good to go here.
You may need to install Shade. Shade is a simple client library for interacting with OpenStack clouds. Red Hat and CentOS environments don't have this installed by default. Install it with the following command:
sudo pip install shade
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