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.. contents::
:depth: 2
Requirements
````````````
About
`````
Requirements for Ansible are extremely minimal.
Now that you've read `intro_installation` and installed Ansible, it's time to dig in and get
started with some commands.
For the central Ansible machine, you will need an environment with Python 2.6 or greater installed. If you are running Python 2.5 on an "Enterprise Linux 5" variant, we'll show you how to add 2.6 to your distribution, but most platforms already have a new enough Python. (Note that Windows is not supported as the Ansible control machine.)
Remote Connection Information
`````````````````````````````
You will also want the following Python modules (installed via pip or perhaps via your OS package manager via slightly different names):
Before we get started, it's important to understand how Ansible is communicating with remote
machines over SSH.
* ``paramiko``
* ``PyYAML``
* ``jinja2``
By default, ansible 1.3 and later will try to use native
OpenSSH for remote communication when possible. This enables both ControlPersist (a performance feature), Kerbos, and options in ~/.ssh/config such as Jump Host setup. When using Enterprise Linux 6 operating systems as the control machine (Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives such as CentOS), however, the version of OpenSSH may be too old to support Control Persist. On these operating systems, Ansible will fallback into using a high-quality python implementation of
OpenSSH called 'paramiko'. If you wish to use features like Kerberized SSH and more, consider using Fedora, OS X, or Ubuntu as your control machine until a newer version of OpenSSH is available for your platform.
If you are using RHEL or CentOS 5, Python is version 2.4 by default, but you can get Python 2.6 installed easily. `Use EPEL <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_ and install these dependencies as follows:
In Ansible 1.2 and before, the default was strictly paramiko and native SSH had to be explicitly selected with -c ssh or set in the configuration file.
.. code-block:: bash
If talking with some remote devices that don't support SFTP, you can switch to SCP mode in
`intro_config`.
$ yum install python26 python26-PyYAML python26-paramiko python26-jinja2
When speaking with remote machines, Ansible will by default assume you are using SSH keys. To enable password auth, supply the option --ask-pass where needed. If using sudo features and when sudo requires a password, also supply --ask-sudo-pass as appropriate.
Ansible also contains a feature called `playbooks_accelerate` which uses SSH for initial key exchange
and then communicates over a high speed encrypted connection.
On the managed nodes, you only need Python 2.4 or later, but if you are are running less than Python 2.6 on them, you will
also need:
* ``python-simplejson``
.. note::
Ansible's "raw" module (for executing commands in a quick and dirty
way) and the script module don't even need that. So technically, you can use
Ansible to install python-simplejson using the raw module, which
then allows you to use everything else. (That's jumping ahead
though.)
.. note::
If you have SELinux enabled on remote nodes, you will also want to install
libselinux-python on them before using any copy/file/template related functions in
Ansible. You can of course still use the yum module in Ansible to install this package on
remote systems that do not have it.
.. note::
Python 3 is a slightly different language than Python 2 and most python programs (including
Ansible) are not switching over yet. However, some Linux distributions (Gentoo, Arch) may not have a
Python 2.X interpreter installed by default. On those systems, you should install one, and set
the 'ansible_python_interpreter' variable in inventory (see :doc:`patterns`) to point at your 2.X python. Distributions
like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu all have a 2.X interpreter installed
by default and this does not apply to those distributions. This is also true of nearly all
Unix systems. If you need to bootstrap these remote systems by installing Python 2.X,
using the 'raw' module will be able to do it remotely.
Getting Ansible
```````````````
If you are interested in using all the latest features, you may wish to keep up to date
with the development branch of the git checkout. This also makes it easiest to contribute
back to the project.
Instructions for installing from source are below.
Ansible's release cycles are usually about two months long. Due to this
short release cycle, minor bugs will generally be fixed in the next release versus maintaining
backports on the stable branch.
You may also wish to follow the `Github project <https://github.com/ansible/ansible>`_ if
you have a github account. This is also where we keep the issue tracker for sharing
bugs and feature ideas.
Running From Checkout
+++++++++++++++++++++
Ansible is trivially easy to run from a checkout, root permissions are not required
to use it:
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ./ansible
$ source ./hacking/env-setup
You will want to install the dependencies needed by Ansible with pip if going from a checkout::
# on Ubuntu, for example:
apt-get install python-dev python-pip
pip install PyYAML Jinja2 paramiko
Once running the env-setup script you'll be running from checkout and the default inventory file
will be /etc/ansible/hosts. You can optionally specify an inventory file (see :doc:`patterns`)
other than /etc/ansible/hosts:
.. code-block:: bash
$ echo "127.0.0.1" > ~/ansible_hosts
$ export ANSIBLE_HOSTS=~/ansible_hosts
You can read more about the inventory file in later parts of the manual.
Now let's test things:
.. code-block:: bash
$ ansible all -m ping --ask-pass
Make Install
++++++++++++
If you are not working from a distribution where Ansible is packaged yet, you can install Ansible
using "make install". This is done through `python-distutils`:
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ./ansible
$ sudo make install
Via Pip
+++++++
Are you a python developer?
Ansible can be installed via Pip, but when you do so, it will ask to install other dependencies used for
things like 'fireball' mode that you might not need::
$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install ansible
Readers that use virtualenv can also install Ansible under virtualenv. Do not use easy_install to install
ansible directly.
Via RPM
+++++++
RPMs for the last Ansible release are available for `EPEL
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_ 6 and currently supported
Fedora distributions. RPMs for openSUSE can be found via the
`openSUSE Software Portal <http://software.opensuse.org/package/ansible>`_
(in the systemsmanagement Project) for all currently supported
openSUSE and SLES distributions.
Ansible itself can manage earlier operating
systems that contain python 2.4 or higher.
If you are using RHEL or CentOS and have not already done so, `configure EPEL <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
.. code-block:: bash
# install the epel-release RPM if needed on CentOS, RHEL, or Scientific Linux
$ sudo yum install ansible
For openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise, add the `systemsmanagement repository <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement/>`_
for your distribution:
.. code-block:: bash
# replace $dist with the correct distribution found here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement/
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement/$dist/systemsmanagement.repo
$ sudo zypper install ansible
You can also use the ``make rpm`` command to build an RPM you can distribute and install.
Make sure you have ``rpm-build``, ``make``, and ``python2-devel`` installed.
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ./ansible
$ make rpm
$ sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/ansible-*.noarch.rpm
Via MacPorts on OS X
++++++++++++++++++++
Ansible is easily run or installed from source, but you can also use MacPorts.
To install the stable version of Ansible from MacPorts, run:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo port install ansible
If you wish to install the latest build via the MacPorts system from a
git checkout, run:
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
$ cd ./ansible/packaging/macports
$ sudo port install
Please refer to the documentation at <http://www.macports.org> for
further information on using Portfiles with MacPorts.
Ubuntu and Debian
+++++++++++++++++
Ubuntu builds are available `in a PPA here <https://launchpad.net/~rquillo/+archive/ansible>`_.
Once configured,
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get install ansible
Debian/Ubuntu packages can also be built from the source checkout, run:
.. code-block:: bash
$ make debian
You may also wish to run from source to get the latest, which is covered above.
Gentoo, Arch, Others
++++++++++++++++++++
Gentoo eBuilds are in portage, version 1.0 `coming soon <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461830>`_.
.. code-block:: bash
$ emerge ansible
An Arch PKGBUILD is available on `AUR <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58621>`_
If you have python3 installed on Arch, you probably want to symlink python to python2:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
You should also set a 'ansible_python_interpreter' inventory variable (see :doc:`patterns`) for hosts that have python
pointing to python3, so the right python can be found on the managed nodes.
Tagged Releases
+++++++++++++++
Tarballs of releases are available on the ansibleworks.com page.
* `Ansible/downloads <http://ansibleworks.com/releases>`_
These releases are also tagged in the git repository with the release version.
Choosing Between Paramiko and Native SSH
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By default, ansible 1.3 and later will try to use native SSH for remote communication when possible.
This is done when ControlPersist support is available. Paramiko is however reasonably fast and makes
a good default on versions of Enterprise Linux where ControlPersist is not available. However, Paramiko
does not support some advanced SSH features that folks will want to use. In Ansible 1.2 and before,
the default was strictly paramiko and native SSH had to be explicitly selected with -c ssh or set in the
configuration file.
.. versionadded:: 0.5
If you want to leverage more advanced SSH features (such as Kerberized
SSH or jump hosts), pass the flag "--connection=ssh" to any ansible
command, or set the ANSIBLE_TRANSPORT environment variable to
'ssh'. This will cause Ansible to use openssh tools instead.
If ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS are not set, ansible will try to use some sensible ControlMaster options
by default. You are free to override this environment variable, but should still pass ControlMaster
options to ensure performance of this transport. With ControlMaster in use, both transports
are roughly the same speed. Without CM, the binary ssh transport is signficantly slower.
If none of this makes sense to you, the default paramiko option is probably fine.
While it may be common sense, it is worth sharing: Any management system benefits from being run near your machines you are being managed. If running in a cloud, onsider running Ansible from a machine inside that cloud.
As an advanced topic, ansible doesn't just have to connect remotely over SSH. The transports are pluggable, and there are options for managing things locally, as well as managing chroot, lxc, and jail containers. A mode called 'ansible-pull' can also invert the system and have systems 'phone home' via scheduled git checkouts to pull configuration directives from a central repository.
Your first commands
```````````````````
Now that you've installed Ansible, it's time to test it.
Now that you've installed Ansible, it's time to get started with some basic tests.
Edit (or create) /etc/ansible/hosts and put one or more remote systems in it, for
which you have your SSH key in ``authorized_keys``::
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aserver.example.org
bserver.example.org
Set up SSH agent to avoid retyping passwords:
We'll assume you are using SSH keys for authentication. Set up SSH agent to avoid retyping passwords:
.. code-block:: bash
@ -327,36 +91,12 @@ what you can do with different modules, as well as the Ansible
also has powerful configuration management and deployment features. There's more to
explore, but you already have a fully working infrastructure!
A note about Connection (Transport) Modes
`````````````````````````````````````````
Ansible has two major forms of SSH transport implemented, 'ssh' (OpenSSH) and 'paramiko'. Paramiko is a python
SSH implementation and 'ssh' simply calls OpenSSH behind the scenes. There are additionally 'fireball' (an accelerated
remote transport), 'local', and 'chroot' connection modes in Ansible that don't use SSH, but connecting by one of the two
SSH transports is the most common way to manage systems. It is useful to understand the difference between the 'ssh'
and 'paramiko' modes.
Paramiko is provided because older Enterprise Linux operating systems do not have an efficient OpenSSH that support
ControlPersist technology, and in those cases, 'paramiko' is faster than 'ssh'. Thus, until EL6 backports a newer
SSH, 'paramiko' is the faster option on that platform.
However, if you have a newer 'ssh' that supports ControlPersist, usage of the 'ssh' transport unlocks additional
configurability, including the option to use Kerberos. For instance, the latest Fedora and Ubuntu releases
all offer a sufficiently new OpenSSH. With ControlPersist available, 'ssh' is usually about as fast as paramiko.
If you'd like even more speed, read about 'fireball' in the Advanced Playbooks section.
Starting with Ansible 1.2.1, the default transport mode for Ansible is 'smart', which means it will detect
if OpenSSH supports ControlPersist, and will select 'ssh' if available, and otherwise pick 'paramiko'.
Previous versions of Ansible defaulted to 'paramiko'.
A note about Host Key Checking
``````````````````````````````
Ansible 1.2.1 and later have host key checking enabled by default.
If a host is reinstalled and has a different key in 'known_hosts', this will result in a error message until
corrected. If a host is not initially in 'known_hosts' this will result in prompting for confirmation of the key,
which results in a interactive experience if using Ansible, from say, cron.
If a host is reinstalled and has a different key in 'known_hosts', this will result in a error message until corrected. If a host is not initially in 'known_hosts' this will result in prompting for confirmation of the key, which results in a interactive experience if using Ansible, from say, cron.
If you wish to disable this behavior and understand the implications, you can do so by editing /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or ~/.ansible.cfg::
@ -367,8 +107,7 @@ Alternatively this can be set by an environment variable:
$ export ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False
Also note that host key checking in paramiko mode is reasonably slow, therefore switching to 'ssh' is also recommended when using this
feature.
Also note that host key checking in paramiko mode is reasonably slow, therefore switching to 'ssh' is also recommended when using this feature.
.. seealso::