A few weeks ago I wrote a post about installing Ansible 2.2 on Fedora 25; today, I’d like to tackle what’s involved in installing Ansible 2.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. This post, like its Fedora counterpart, stems from my ongoing evaluation of Linux distributions and desktop environments. While the information here is very similar to the information in the Fedora post, I’m putting it in its own post in the hopes of making the information easier for readers to find.
It’s not really a secret that I like to run Ansible in a Python virtualenv, but I don’t believe that it will make any difference to the procedure described in this post. The errors that result when trying to install Ansible 2.2 without the necessary prerequisite packages should be the same either way (in a virtualenv or not). However, I’m happy to be corrected if someone knows otherwise.
To create a Python virtualenv, you’ll first need virtualenv installed. I prefer to install virtualenv globally for all users using this command:
sudo -H pip install virtualenv
Alternately, you could install it via a package, with apt install virtualenv. As far as I can tell, either approach Continue reading
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The holidays are upon us. And while we can't automate your gift wrapping, we can make your Playbook more festive.
Introducing Ansible holiday-themed cowsay!
Copy and paste this code:
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curl "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jlaska/14bc829af01526add07efcaa83582aaf/raw/5f4918be06ffa69ea848354c5563c6a2d7b59807/happy_holidays.sh" | bash
Decorations are popping up everywhere so why not in your Playbook?
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