Installing and Configuring Ansible
Installing and Configuring Ansible 1. Enable EPEL Repository wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm 2. Install Ansible sudo yum install ansible 3. Setup Passwordless access to remote machines ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 ssh-copy-id essadmin@10.201.32.127 Now test pass-wordless access. 4. Creating Inventory File for Remote Hosts with below entry sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts [webservers] 10.201.32.127 5. Test ansible using the ping module with -m option $ ansible -m ping webservers 10.201.32.127 | SUCCESS => { "changed": false, "ping": "pong" } $ ansible -m ping all 10.201.32.127 | SUCCESS => { changed": false, "ping"