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Practical Network Automation
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Practical Network Automation

by Abhishek Ratan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
5h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Basic requirements of Ansible

Ansible is very easy to install and set up. It works on a controller and managed nodes model. In this model, Ansible is installed on a controller, which is a Linux server, and has access to all the inventory or nodes that we want to manage. As we have seen, Ansible is supported on Linux (there is a beta version out there for the Windows controller but it's not yet fully supported), and it relies on the SSH protocol to communicate with nodes. So, apart from the configuration of the controller, we need to ensure the nodes that are going to be managed are SSH capable.

There is an additional requirement of Python being installed on the managed nodes, since multiple Ansible modules are written in Python and Ansible ...

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ISBN: 9781788299466