How to install Ansible 2 on AWS Linux 2 (EC2)

Ian Adera
May 16, 2020

This a basic walkthrough on how to install Ansible 2 on AWS. Ansible is a configuration management automation tool, that is used to manage remote machines. Ansible works by running commands via SSH, so there’s no need to install any server software.

Step 1 — Install the latest version of a packages

$ sudo yum update -y

Step 2 — Use the amazon-linux-extras command to install Ansible.

$ sudo amazon-linux-extras install ansible2 -y

Step 3– Check Ansible Version

$ ansible — version

At this point, you can start to connect with slaves through ssh.

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