For some time now you have been able to download and use for personal development Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as part of the “No-cost RHEL Developer Subscription” programme.
There are plenty of tutorials out there on how to install Ansible on RHEL and other Linux variations so this guide serves as the process I went through to install & configure Ansible on a freshly deployed RHEL 7 instance.
Step 0 – Prepping RHEL 7
If you have just downloaded the RHEL 7 ISO as part of the developer subscription model we will need to perform some initial tasks to get it up to scratch
- Authenticate your subscription
subscription-manager register –username your_username –password your_password - Update the OS
yum update && yum upgrade - Let’s install some classics such as ifconfig & wget
yum install net-tools yum install wget
- We also need access to the “Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux” for downloading packages outside the normal channels
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm yum install epel-release
So at this point we should have a RHEL 7 instance ready to go.
Step 1 – Installing Python, Python Tooling & Ansible
- We’ll install Python first
sudo yum install python - Next we’ll install PIP which is a “package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python”
sudo yum install python-pip - Now we need to upgrade it
sudo pip install –upgrade pip - Next we’ll use PIP to install some liraries and modules for python & Ansible
sudo pip install markupsafe sudo pip install xmltodict sudo pip install pywinrm
- And finally we will install Ansible
sudo yum install ansible - To confirm that it has been installed correctly we’ll execute
ansible –version
Which should generate the following output[asecor@labansc]$ ansible --version ansible 2.1.2.0 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = Default w/o overrides
Done! We now have a working Ansible installation on Red Hat Linux 7!
thanks bro, nice tut ans save my lot of time..
Thanks Bro.
I did my installation on Oracle Enterprise Linux 7
i followed above steps but it was not installed
the result was
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos
No package ansible available.
Error: Nothing to do
yum-config-manager –enable rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras rhui-REGION-rhel-server-optional
run this after installation of epel packages
I tried above steps and getting same error:
No package ansible available.
Error: Nothing to do
Thank You it really helped. Nice article 🙂
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Great help … thanks a ton.
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How To Install Ansible in Redhat Linux/Centos
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Nice Tutorial!
Thank You!