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Installing and Running Ansible

Now that we know a little about the background of Ansible, we will work on installing it and, once installed, we will run our first set of playbooks against a test virtual machine running CentOS 7.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

How to install Ansible on macOS and Linux
Running Ansible on Windows 10 Professional using the Linux subsystem
Launching a test virtual machine
An introduction to playbooks

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