Ansible? what is that!
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Published  : 6 January 2025
Reading    : 1 min
Tags       : Ansible
URL        : https://ctrl-find.nl/posts/ansible/
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Ansible is a configuration management tool that can be used for configuring servers, clients and network equipment.\
The basic way of using this tool is through **SSH**, utilizing passwords or preferably SSH keys.\
In this series we will be using Ansible for configuring a server through the following options;

- **ansible-commands**: Execute single command on a host
- **ansible-playbooks**": Run repeatable script(s) on a host
- **ansible-roles**: Organize and reuse code for configurations tasks

There is a newer version called **ansible-navigator** that's for another post, for now lets stick to the current version called **ansible**.

### How to install
There are many different ways to [install](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#installation-guide) Ansible on your preferred Operating System.\
In this Ansible series, we will be using MacOS for running Ansible.\
To install Ansible on MacOS, all we need is:
 
- **Install homebrew**:  [here](https://www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-install-homebrew-on-mac/) (optional if you already have homebrew installed).

```bash
brew update
brew install ansible
```

**brew update** checks for updates and then upgrade the current installed packages and finally, install Ansible through the package manager.\
Once the installation is done, we can verify it by running:\

```bash
ansible --version
```

Now that we have Ansible installed, we can start managing our hosts. Stay tuned for the next post in this series!

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