How to install Ansible with PIP in Ubuntu
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software,
and orchestrate advanced IT tasks. In this tutorial we will see how to install Ansible with
pip
on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Prerequisite for following this tutorial
- Control Node : VM having Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or above.
Lets install Ansible on Control Node with below steps.
Create user ansible
sudo useradd ansible
Add user ansible to sudoers file
sudo visudo
Add below entry at the end of /etc/sudoers
ansible ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Switch to ansible user,
create ansible directory and change permissions
sudo su - ansible
mkdir /home/ansible;
cd /home/ansible;
sudo chown -R ansible:ansible /home/ansible/;
Install pip, if it is not installed already
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python3 get-pip.py --user
Check pip version
pip --version
If you are getting pip version than switch to step Install Ansible with pip,
else follow below steps to add
/home/ansible/.local/bin in the bash_profile
vi .bash_profile
Add "export PATH="$PATH:/home/ansible/.local/bin" in
.bash_profile and activate bash_profile with below command
and check pip version
source ~/.bash_profile
pip --version
Install Ansible with pip
pip install --user ansible
Verify Ansible installation
ansible --version
Output
ansible 2.9.9
config file = None
configured module search path = ['/home/ansible/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /home/ansible/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /home/ansible/.local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.2 (default, Apr 27 2020, 15:53:34) [GCC 9.3.0]
If you are getting any error while following this tutorial, please post errors in comments, we will try to resolve those as soon as possible.
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