How to install and run Ansible

     In this article simply explained how to install ansible in an easy way. Ansible can only run on the Linux platform. Which is not available for windows 10 but you can install on Windows's WSL for practicing.

Link:  What is Ansible?

Prerequisite for Ansible

• Linux Operating System
• Python 3.x.x 

Run the below codes to install the global  version of Ansible

Gnome Terminal

[anand@linux-pc ~]:$ sudo python get-pip.py
[anand@linux-pc ~]:$ sudo python -m pip install ansible

If you have Python 2.x and Python 3.x both versions try the below commands avoid misconfiguration

Gnome Terminal

[anand@linux-pc ~]:$ sudo python3 get-pip.py
[anand@linux-pc ~]:$ sudo python3 -m pip install ansible

Once Ansible successfully installed run the below commands. If everything is good, you will get the output as per the below bash output

Gnome Terminal

[anand@linux-pc ~]:$ ansible --version

ansible 2.9.11 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = ['/home/kali/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /home/kali/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible python version = 3.8.5 (default, Aug 2 2020, 15:09:07) [GCC 10.2.0]