Practical Ansible 2

Running from source versus pre-built RPMs

Ansible is always rapidly evolving, and there may be times, either for early access to a new feature (or module) or as part of your own development efforts, that you wish to run the latest, bleeding-edge version of Ansible from GitHub. In this section, we will look at how you can quickly get up and running with the source code. The method outlined in this chapter has the advantage that, unlike package-manager-based installs that must be performed as root, the end result is a working installation of Ansible without the need for any root privileges.

Let's get started by checking out the very latest version of the source code from GitHub:

1. You must clone the sources from the git repository first, and ...