Installing Ansible on your computer

As mentioned before, Ansible is a really simple application with very few dependencies. You can install Ansible on your computer using your operating system package manager, or through pip, as Ansible is written in Python. We will be demonstrating all of the outputs from a CentOS 7.x-based Linux distribution, but the process applies equally to all supported platforms. (For more information, refer to the following link in order to find and install Ansible binaries on your operating system: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#installing-the-control-machine.) The following command will install a number of binaries, libraries, and Ansible modules:

$ yum install ...

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