Install Ansible on Mac OSX

Brew Install

• Install Homebrew if there is no brew.

  /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  

• Install Ansible

  brew install ansible
  

Native Python Install

• Install Xcode
  Check if your already have the developer tools:

  pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
  

  Before OSX mavericks, the package name was com.apple.pkg.DeveloperToolsCLI.

  pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.DeveloperToolsCLI
  

  If the tools are not installed, you will see this output:

  No receipt for 'com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables' found at '/'.
  

  In that case, download and install Xcode form apple website.
  If the tools are installed, you should see output similar to this:

  package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
  version: 5.1.0.0.1.1396320587
  volume: /
  location: /
  install-time: 1397415256
  groups: com.apple.FindSystemFiles.pkg-group com.apple.DevToolsBoth.pkg-group com.apple.DevToolsNonRelocatableShared.pkg-group
  

• Install pip

  sudo easy_install pip
  

• Install Ansible

  sudo pip install ansible
  

• Upgrade Ansible

  sudo pip install ansible --upgrade
  

• Inventory hosts filename
  The default inventory hosts file is /etc/ansible/hosts. There are two ways to change the defualt file:
  • Set environment variable:

    export ANSIBLE_HOSTS=/root/ansible_hosts
    

  • Specify the Ansible hosts location with the –inventory-file= (or -i) flag:

    ansible all --inventory-file=/root/ansible_hosts -m ping
    

Source: https://valdhaus.co/writings/ansible-mac-osx/
https://valdhaus.co/writings/ansible-post-install/

Written on June 6, 2017