Network Automation Cookbook

How it works...

In order to install Ansible in a Python 3 environment and to have more control over the version of Ansible deployed, we are going to use the pip Python program to install Ansible as shown here:

• Install Python 3 if it is not present, as follows:

# Ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install python3# CentOSsudo yum install python3

• Install the python3-pip package:

# Ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip# CentOS$ sudo yum install python3-pip

• Install Ansible:

# Ubuntu and CentOS# This will install ansible for the current user ONLY$ pip3 install ansible==2.9 --user# We Can install ansible on the System Level$ sudo pip3 install ansible==2.9

• We can verify that Ansible has been installed successfully, as shown here:

$$ ansible --version ...