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Ansible Role: Ansible
An Ansible Role that installs Ansible on Linux servers.
Requirements
If using on a RedHat/CentOS-based host, make sure you've added the EPEL repository (it can easily be installed by including the geerlingguy.repo-epel
role on Ansible Galaxy).
Role Variables
Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml
):
ansible_install_method: package
Whether to install Ansible via the system package
manager (apt
, yum
, dnf
, etc.), or via pip
. If set to pip
, you need to make sure Pip is installed prior to running this role. You can use the geerlingguy.pip
module to install Pip easily.
ansible_install_version_pip: ''
If ansible_install_method
is set to pip
, the specific Ansible version to be installed via Pip. If not set, the latest version of Ansible will be installed.
Dependencies
None.
Example Playbook
Install from the system package manager:
- hosts: servers
roles:
- role: geerlingguy.ansible
Install from pip:
- hosts: servers
vars:
ansible_install_method: pip
ansible_install_version_pip: "2.7.0"
roles:
- role: geerlingguy.pip
- role: geerlingguy.ansible
License
MIT / BSD
Author Information
This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.