In most cases this will work better than on the open Internet. If you are running Ansible in a cloud, consider running it from a machine inside that cloud. When choosing a control node, bear in mind that any management system benefits from being run near the machines being managed. Windows is not supported for the control node. This includes Red Hat, Debian, CentOS, macOS, any of the BSDs, and so on.

Control node requirementsĬurrently Ansible can be run from any machine with Python 2 (version 2.7) or Python 3 (versions 3.5 and higher) installed. You install Ansible on a control node, which then uses SSH (by default) to communicate with your managed nodes (those end devices you want to automate).

Installing argcomplete on RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora.

Installing Ansible on Gentoo with portage.

Installing Ansible on RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora.

Selecting an Ansible version to install.

When Ansible manages remote machines, it does not leave software installed or running on them, so there’s no real question about how to upgrade Ansible when moving to a new version. You only need to install it on one machine (which could easily be a laptop) and it can manage an entire fleet of remote machines from that central point. Once installed, Ansible does not add a database, and there will be no daemons to start or keep running. Ansible is an agentless automation tool that by default manages machines over the SSH protocol. This page describes how to install Ansible on different platforms.

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