How to Install Ansible on Fedora 20 via Yum

Posted on April 6, 2015 by J. Mays | Updated: April 27, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Ansible, Automation, Chef, Fedora, Fedora 20, Puppet

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Ansible is an automation engine, similar to Chef or Puppet, that can be used to ensure deployment and configuration consistency across many servers, and keep servers and applications up-to-date. Though, unlike some other tools, Ansible does not require a client component/agent.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for installing Ansible, an automation tool, on Fedora 20.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 20 server, and I’ll be logged in as non-root user. If you need more information then visit our tutorial on How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on Fedora 20.

Step #1: The Installation

As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:

sudo yum -y update

Then let’s install Ansible and any required packages:

sudo yum -y install ansible

Step #2: Verify The Installation

Check the version of Ansible that is installed:

ansible --version

Which should yield something similar to:

ansible 1.3.4

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