Installation of Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04

Ansible is a configuration management tool build in python. It is really easy to get started with and to get the work done easily. We can install ansible on ubantu 14.04 by the following steps.
Install required package

Follow the below command to install required packages.

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y

Add ppa

This command will add ppa

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible

Running Update

To update it follow the given command

sudo apt-get update

Installing ansible

To install ansible ,this command is being used.

sudo apt-get install ansible -y

Installation of ansible is done . AWS API access requires a python library named Boto to be installed on the master ansible machine. Run the following command to install Boto.

Installing Boto

sudo apt-get install python-boto

You are done with ansible and boto installation. To install it in a single shot, make a bash script, give it executable permission and just run the script.

Make the script file

touch ansible_installation.sh

Copy and paste the following content to the file we just created

#! /bin/bash
echo "Installing software-properties-commaon..."
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y
echo "Adding ppa for anisble..."
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
echo "Running update..."
sudo apt-get update
echo "Installing ansible..."
sudo apt-get install ansible -y
echo "Ansbile is ready to use..."
echo "Installing boto..."
sudo apt-get install python-boto

Give the script executable permission

sudo chmod +x ansible_installation.sh

Run the script by the following command

./ansible_installation.sh

You are done with the installation. To check if the ansible is installed just type “ansible” in your terminal and hit enter.