How to install Ansible in Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8. Today we’re going to talk about the easier way to install and maintain Ansible inside RHEL 8 with the distribution tools. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
How to install Ansible in RHEL 8
Today we’re talking about How to install Ansible in RHEL 8. The easier way to install and maintain Ansible inside Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8 with the distribution tools. The repository that contains Ansible is called the Ansible Engine software collection. The main advantage of using software collection is that you don’t require any external repository such as EPEL for this content. Software Collections are fully supported by Red Hat and included in your subscription plan.
Demo
Are you ready to make your hands dirty? Let’s jump in a quick live Playbook of how to install the latest and a specific version of Ansible in RHEL8.
RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 supports ansible-core via the
code
#!/bin/bash
sudo subscription-manager register
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable ansible-2.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
sudo yum install ansible
Execution
# dnf install ansible-core
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
ansible-core x86_64 2.12.2-1.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 2.4 M
Installing dependencies:
emacs-filesystem noarch 1:27.2-6.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 10 k
git x86_64 2.31.1-2.el9.2 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 128 k
git-core x86_64 2.31.1-2.el9.2 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 3.6 M
git-core-doc noarch 2.31.1-2.el9.2 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 2.5 M
perl-AutoLoader noarch 5.74-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 31 k
perl-B x86_64 1.80-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 194 k
perl-Carp noarch 1.50-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 31 k
perl-Class-Struct noarch 0.66-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 32 k
perl-Data-Dumper x86_64 2.174-462.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 59 k
perl-Digest noarch 1.19-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 29 k
perl-Digest-MD5 x86_64 2.58-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 39 k
perl-DynaLoader x86_64 1.47-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 36 k
perl-Encode x86_64 4:3.08-462.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 1.7 M
perl-Errno x86_64 1.30-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 25 k
perl-Error noarch 1:0.17029-7.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 46 k
perl-Exporter noarch 5.74-461.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 34 k
perl-Fcntl x86_64 1.13-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 32 k
perl-File-Basename noarch 2.85-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 27 k
perl-File-Find noarch 1.37-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 36 k
perl-File-Path noarch 2.18-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 38 k
perl-File-Temp noarch 1:0.231.100-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 63 k
perl-File-stat noarch 1.09-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 27 k
perl-FileHandle noarch 2.03-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 26 k
perl-Getopt-Long noarch 1:2.52-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 64 k
perl-Getopt-Std noarch 1.12-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 26 k
perl-Git noarch 2.31.1-2.el9.2 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 45 k
perl-HTTP-Tiny noarch 0.076-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 58 k
perl-IO x86_64 1.43-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 103 k
perl-IO-Socket-IP noarch 0.41-5.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 45 k
perl-IPC-Open3 noarch 1.21-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 34 k
perl-MIME-Base64 x86_64 3.16-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 34 k
perl-Net-SSLeay x86_64 1.92-1.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 392 k
perl-POSIX x86_64 1.94-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 108 k
perl-PathTools x86_64 3.78-461.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 92 k
perl-Pod-Escapes noarch 1:1.07-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 22 k
perl-Pod-Perldoc noarch 3.28.01-461.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 92 k
perl-Pod-Simple noarch 1:3.42-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 229 k
perl-Pod-Usage noarch 4:2.01-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 43 k
perl-Scalar-List-Utils x86_64 4:1.56-461.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 77 k
perl-SelectSaver noarch 1.02-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 22 k
perl-Socket x86_64 4:2.031-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 58 k
perl-Storable x86_64 1:3.21-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 98 k
perl-Symbol noarch 1.08-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 24 k
perl-Term-ANSIColor noarch 5.01-461.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 51 k
perl-Term-Cap noarch 1.17-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 24 k
perl-TermReadKey x86_64 2.38-11.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 40 k
perl-Text-ParseWords noarch 3.30-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 18 k
perl-Text-Tabs+Wrap noarch 2013.0523-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 25 k
perl-Time-Local noarch 2:1.300-7.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 37 k
perl-URI noarch 5.09-3.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 125 k
perl-base noarch 2.27-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 26 k
perl-constant noarch 1.33-461.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 25 k
perl-if noarch 0.60.800-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 24 k
perl-interpreter x86_64 4:5.32.1-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 83 k
perl-lib x86_64 0.65-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 25 k
perl-libnet noarch 3.13-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 134 k
perl-libs x86_64 4:5.32.1-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 2.2 M
perl-mro x86_64 1.23-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 40 k
perl-overload noarch 1.31-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 56 k
perl-overloading noarch 0.02-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 23 k
perl-parent noarch 1:0.238-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 16 k
perl-podlators noarch 1:4.14-460.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 118 k
perl-subs noarch 1.03-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 22 k
perl-vars noarch 1.05-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 23 k
python3-babel noarch 2.9.1-2.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 6.0 M
python3-cffi x86_64 1.14.5-5.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 257 k
python3-cryptography x86_64 36.0.1-1.el9_0 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 1.2 M
python3-jinja2 noarch 2.11.3-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 253 k
python3-markupsafe x86_64 1.1.1-12.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 39 k
python3-packaging noarch 20.9-5.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 81 k
python3-ply noarch 3.11-14.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 111 k
python3-pycparser noarch 2.20-6.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 139 k
python3-pyparsing noarch 2.4.7-9.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms 154 k
python3-pytz noarch 2021.1-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 56 k
python3-resolvelib noarch 0.5.4-5.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 38 k
sshpass x86_64 1.09-4.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 30 k
Installing weak dependencies:
perl-IO-Socket-SSL noarch 2.073-1.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 223 k
perl-Mozilla-CA noarch 20200520-6.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 14 k
perl-NDBM_File x86_64 1.15-479.el9 rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms 33 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 80 Packages
Total download size: 25 M
Installed size: 102 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
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Verification
After the successful installation you could verify in the command line:
[root@localhost ~]# ansible --version
ansible [core 2.12.2]
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 3.9.10 (main, Feb 9 2022, 00:00:00) [GCC 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)]
jinja version = 2.11.3
libyaml = True
Conclusion
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