Overview

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates.

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu 18.04

Installation

01. Update the repository

$ sudo apt update

02. Install software-properties-common

$ sudo apt install software-properties-common

03. Add package repository for Ansible

$ sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible

04. Install Ansible

$ sudo apt install ansible

05. Verify that Ansible has been installed

$ ansible --version