Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

Installing Git and Ansible on our EC2 instance

Since we need to be able to run Ansible and Git remotely, we first need to install those packages on our EC2 instance. For now, we will do that by manually installing those two packages. We will implement a reusable solution later in this chapter. Since Ansible is a perfect tool for running remote commands and this has a module to manage most common requirements such as installing packages, instead of logging in on the host through ssh and running some commands, we are going to use Ansible to push out those changes. We will install Git and Ansible from the EPEL yum repository. This will require running commands as root, which you can do with the help of the become option. After adapting the IP ...