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Setting up an Ubuntu Ansible control node

Setting up an Ubuntu Ansible control node - Ansible Tutorial

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Setting up an Ubuntu Ansible control node

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In this video, we are going to explore how to set up Ansible on an Ubuntu machine. So how does that work? Well, the procedure on non-REL distributions in many cases is the same. The Ansible core package is available from the distribution repositories and the rest of it is not. And that means that in many, many cases, you will need to install specific components separately using the Python PIP installer. In my upcoming demo, I'm going to show you how to take care of the standard components and the Python PIP components as well, we'll check them out once they occur. So here we are on Ubuntu. For your information, this is Ubuntu server with the Ubuntu desktop, the graphical desktop installed on top of it. This procedure should work anywhere and what you need to do is sudo apt install ansible-core. And as you can see, it is going to install a lot of new packages, including some Python stuff and yes, you want to continue. And once it is done, you are ready to use Ansible on Ubuntu. So…

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