Ansible for VMware by Examples: A Step-by-Step Guide to Automating Your VMware Infrastructure

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L. BertonAnsible for VMware by Exampleshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8879-5_2

2. Installing Ansible

Luca Berton¹  

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Czechia, Czech Republic

 

It is simple to install most common and modern operating system nowadays. The main requirements for Ansible are only the Python interpreter and some Python libraries to read and format YAML documents and to interact with SSH for Linux/macOS target hosts and WinRM for Windows target hosts. All of this is handled by the operating system package manager, so you don’t need to worry about it. Ansible is already included in most recent Linux distributions out of the box. Most of the time, this doesn’t require additional ...