Instaling Ansible on Linux and Mac OS X

Ansible today is the new buzzword in world of DevOps because it allows sysadmins to easily and quickly transform their manual tasks into scripts for automated environment. The best thing about Ansible is that it is easy to learn, is agent less and doesn't require a lot of configuration to make the tool run. 

Apart from being a tool for sysadmins Ansible can be easily learn and put into practice by any developer with the same ease because of its clear syntax, structure and very wide support from open source community. As per Ansible website there are around 2200 contributors out there creating plugins for Ansible, so most probably there's already a solution to the problem or task. 

In this article we will look into installation of Ansible on different OS's and Docker.

Lets begin:

Latest release via YUM:

$ yum install ansible

Latest release via APT(ubuntu)

$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install ansible

Latest release via APT (debian)

$ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu trusty main
$ apt-get install ansible

Latest release on MAC OS X
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ pip install ansible