Practical Ansible 2

Installing Ansible on Linux and FreeBSD

The release cycle for Ansible is usually about four months, and during this short release cycle, there are normally many changes, from minor bug fixes to major ones, to new features and even sometimes fundamental changes to the language. The simplest way to not only get up and running with Ansible but to keep yourself up to date is to use the native packages built for your operating system where they are available.

For example, if you wish to run the latest version of Ansible on top of Linux distribution such as CentOS, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Debian, and Ubuntu, I strongly recommend that you use an operating system package manager such as yum on Red Hat-based distributions or apt