How to Install Ansible on Fedora 20 via Yum

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnsible 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.

• 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.

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 Check the version of Ansible that is installed: ansible --version Which should yield something similar to: ansible 1.3.4