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Keilo
Keilo

Reputation: 986

How to install ansible on amazon aws?

Having trouble running Ansible on the latest version of amazon linux.

[root@ip-10-0-0-11 ec2-user]# yum install ansible --enablerepo=epel
[root@ip-10-0-0-11 ec2-user]# ansible-playbook
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 44, in <module>
    import ansible.playbook
ImportError: No module named ansible.playbook

Using AMI ID: ami-a10897d6.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 33633

Answers (8)

openCivilisation
openCivilisation

Reputation: 946

On Amazon Linux 2 to get the latest version of Ansible do not use yum (currently it won't give you 2.10.x), I recommend you use python3-pip.

sudo yum remove ansible
sudo yum install -y python3-pip
python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip # Do not run pip as sudo. Do this instead.
python3 -m pip install ansible

If you don't already have python3 you may need this step before the above:

sudo yum install -y python3.7

In my case, I needed ansible 2.10.x because it has the added benefit of requirements.yml files being able to install collections directly from git repositories.

Upvotes: 1

schmudu
schmudu

Reputation: 2233

This answer is based off of @M.Rajput's answer. I wanted to define the details so I wouldn't forget.

Warning: this was only tested on a RHEL 7.7 Community AMI (ami-029c0fbe456d58bd1).

# modify yum repo enabled
sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo

# find entry titled [rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-extras-rpms]
# change "enabled=0" to "enabled=1"
# save and quit file (vim command is :wq)
sudo yum install ansible

Upvotes: 0

msahin
msahin

Reputation: 1760

For Amazon Linux2 AMI: 

sudo yum update
sudo yum install ansible

or 

sudo amazon-linux-extras install ansible2

For Amazon Linux AMI: 

sudo yum update
sudo yum install ansible --enablerepo=epel

For Ubuntu 18.04 AMI: 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible

Note: You can install ansible using "pip".

sudo yum install python-pip
sudo pip install ansible

Upvotes: 5

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 13593

This article says that you can use sudo amazon-linux-extras install ansible2 to install ansible on Amazon linux.

Upvotes: 2

M.Rajput
M.Rajput

Reputation: 311

Just enable the below repo from the /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat-rhui.repo file by default is disabled.

rhui-REGION-rhel-server-extras/7Server/x86_64

Upvotes: 2

VSK
VSK

Reputation: 469

Why not check out the source code from git and and checkout the latest stable version.

git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git --recursive
$ cd ./ansible
$ source ./hacking/env-setup
git checkout <VERSION>

Upvotes: 3

nitzmahone
nitzmahone

Reputation: 13940

Using pip (alone, not in conjunction with yum) is probably the best option right now on Amazon Linux. I'd suggest getting rid of the yum-installed copy if it's still there.

The RPM specs in epel and epel-testing (as of 1.9.2) currently handle only RHEL, Fedora, and SuSE, and the defaults are installing everything under Python 2.6, where the latest Amazon Linux has default Python 2.7. A bit of work will be required to get the RPM install working under Amazon Linux...

Upvotes: 5

Keilo
Keilo

Reputation: 986

It appears that python library files do not have correct permissions by default. Running this fixed it for me.

[root@ip-10-0-0-11 ansible]# pip install ansible

Upvotes: 32

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