• A password can be used to authenticate to remote Linux machines, but this is not supported for Mac or OSX systems. The public key must be pre-installed or copied to the remote machine. Installing the extension adds the following Ansible task which runs a given Playbook: When Ansible automation engine is located on an Agent machine.
• $ sudo make -C /usr/ports/sysutils/ansible install Latest Releases on Mac OSX The preferred way to install ansible on a Mac is via pip. The instructions can be found in Latest Releases Via Pip section. Latest Releases Via OpenCSW (Solaris) Ansible is available for Solaris asSysV package from OpenCSW.
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Here is a description what to do after installing Ansible on Mac, it worked for me: ansible-tips-and-tricks.readthedocs.io. I downloaded the ansible.cfg file to /Users/'yourUser'/.ansible and afterwards you can edit the ansible.cfg file by uncommenting the. Inventory = /Users/'yourUser'/.ansible.

Ansible Download Mac Installer

Ansible is mainly used for automize Linux/windows servers provisioning and operation, however from version 2.1 there is support module for network related devices.

In order to test it I have first install ansible in my mac:

There are several ways to install ansible, but the mostly common used on mac is homebrew an pip. Here is the comparision of both installation ways:

Mac Install Ansible

'pip is a packager for the python world – you should only ever be able to install python-things with it; homebrew is a package manager targetted at OSX; it doesn’t impose any restrictions onto what software you can install with it – since python is a subset of software.

installing things with brew will install them into /usr/local/;

installing things with pip will fetch packages from the Python Package Index, and it will install them in a place where your python interpreter will find them: either into your home directory (e.g. ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/) or in some global search-path of your python interpreter (e.g. /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/)”

We will just explore the way to install ansible with homebrew:

1, install Xcode (C compiler) in order to use python
xcode-select–install

2, Install python using homebrew

brew install python

or

brew install python3

Actually, step 1 and 2 can be skipped because all new Mac OS X has python 2.7 installed already.

3, brew install ansible

After the installation we can find ansible is installed under /usr/local/bin/

mac-c02t6npagtfj:bin grayin$ ls ansible*

ansible ansible-doc ansible-pull

ansible-config ansible-galaxy ansible-vault

ansible-connection ansible-inventory

ansible-console ansible-playbook

notes: do “brew update” first before the installation to avoid any unexpected errors

Note

This module is part of ansible-base and included in all Ansibleinstallations. In most cases, you can use the short module namepackage even without specifying the collections: keyword.Despite that, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the moduledocumentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may havethe same module name.

• Installs, upgrade and removes packages using the underlying OS package manager.

• For Windows targets, use the ansible.windows.win_package module instead.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• Whatever is required for the package plugins specific for each system.

Note

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• This module actually calls the pertinent package modules for each system (apt, yum, etc).

• For Windows targets, use the ansible.windows.win_package module instead.

Authors¶

• Ansible Core Team