While some people already answered with “it’s in EPEL” (and they are absolutely right), there are other alternatives. While EPEL would only support one branch (so actually they jumped to
$latest, aka 2.7.8 for now), there are cases when one needs to stick with a particular version of ansible, also because of ensuring that playbook code is still working, having to reflected deprecated things, etc.
Or that can be also (thinking about openshift and openshift-ansible deployment, that only support 2.6.x and break with 2.7.x for now), that some other tools in your framework depend on a specific version too.
We (CentOS Infra, for some reasons explained above) still rely on 2.6.x, so installing (without epel) that release is just a matter of :
yum install -y CentOS-release-ansible26 && yum install ansible
Of course, if you mix that with Epel, don’t forget to put an exclude in epel yum repo config (exclude=ansible) to stick with the one from cfgmgmt SIG :)
So don’t also get me wrong : I’m *not* saying that the Epel version isn’t good, but I just wanted to offer alternatives, and also reasons why they exist
2 thoughts on - How To Install Ansible In CentOS
Ansible is available through the EPEL- repo.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
Best regards Ulf
While some people already answered with “it’s in EPEL” (and they are absolutely right), there are other alternatives. While EPEL would only support one branch (so actually they jumped to
$latest, aka 2.7.8 for now), there are cases when one needs to stick with a particular version of ansible, also because of ensuring that playbook code is still working, having to reflected deprecated things, etc.
Or that can be also (thinking about openshift and openshift-ansible deployment, that only support 2.6.x and break with 2.7.x for now), that some other tools in your framework depend on a specific version too.
That’s the reason why the CentOS Configuration Management SIG still builds and provide ansible :
http://mirror.CentOS.org/CentOS/7/configmanagement/x86_64/
We (CentOS Infra, for some reasons explained above) still rely on 2.6.x, so installing (without epel) that release is just a matter of :
yum install -y CentOS-release-ansible26 && yum install ansible
Of course, if you mix that with Epel, don’t forget to put an exclude in epel yum repo config (exclude=ansible) to stick with the one from cfgmgmt SIG :)
So don’t also get me wrong : I’m *not* saying that the Epel version isn’t good, but I just wanted to offer alternatives, and also reasons why they exist