AnsiblePlaybooks

Ansible is a python package used to setup application on different machines.

How to setup

I've used red hat enterprise linux. For windows, either enable WSL or install using cygwin

1. Install latest version of Python
2. Install other dependencies python3-dev, python3-venv, python3-pip.
   • As per linux flavour, use the installation server for eg. apt-get or yum
3. Run python3 -m venv ansible-2.9.1
   • Please specify the version of the ansible wanted to install
   • Once it is executed a virtual env by the name of ansible-2.9.1 will create
   • You can specify any name for venv but its a good practice to specify version
4. Run source ansible-2.9.1/bin/activate
   • This will activate the created virtual environment
   • Now, all the pip installations will be done within this environment only
   • In this way, different files will not flood your machine
5. Once in a virtual environment run
   • pip install wheel
   • pip install pywinrm
   • pip install ansible==2.9.1
     • If version is not defined then latest version will install
6. Make sure your ansible is targeting the correct python3 compiler
   • Run, head -n 1 $(which ansible)
     • Make sure it will return something like this #!/usr/bin/python3
     • Otherwise, go through this link for manually changing the interpreter
7. Run deactivate
   • To exit the virtual environment

Your ansible is up and running. Now transfer the host file to /etc/ansible and run this command to execute your first playbook

ansible-playbook <playbook>.yml -k -vvv