An Ansible controller (the main component that manages the nodes), is supported on multiple flavors of Linux, but it cannot be installed on Windows.
For managed nodes, the core requirement is anything with Python 2.6 and above. Additionally, since Ansible uses SSH to communicate with managed nodes, the node must be able to be accessed from SSH. For any file transfers, the default is SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), but there is always an option to use scp for the default file transfer protocol. This being said, as mentioned earlier, if Python installation is not possible, then we would be using the raw modules of Ansible running from the server itself.
Going back to controller machine installation, Python 2 (2.6 ...
