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Setting up an Ansible control node with Python pip

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Setting up an Ansible control node with Python pip

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An alternative way to install Ansible is using Python pip. So what is the difference? Well, if you install Ansible from the distribution repositories, you get a version of Ansible that is well-tested. If you install Ansible using Python pip, you get the latest version of Ansible, and you might encounter features that have not yet stabilized and which would've been stabilized in distributions. So that, by itself, is a good reason to prefer software that comes from the distributions. But you might be on a Linux distribution where there is no Ansible package in the distribution itself. Or you might be interested in testing the latest features and the latest version of Ansible. There, you are better off using Python pip. And let's talk about how you can do that on Linux in general. In Fedora or on CentOS, you would start by using dnf install python3-pip. On other Linux distributions, procedure is the same. You just need a different package manager because dnf is not everywhere available…

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