I am finally after 2+ years working on learning to work with and write Ansible.
I have a server I built that I intend to install Ansible on but with an RPM hopefully from a repo; it will be my Ansible Control Node. I also have 4 other VMs that I am going to treat as my Ansible Managed Nodes.
The problem is if I attempt to perform a dnf install ansible* I do not see ansible-core or a package simply called “ansible.”
Is ALMA Linux not supporting Ansible in any way? Seems like a silly question but I am not finding what I would expect to be run-of-the-mill packages available.
Thanks all.
Try ‘dnf list *ansible*’. Is there centos-release*?
FYI on a fully patched machine:
$ dnf list *ansible*
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:34 ago on Thu 28 Apr 2022 08:52:29 BST.
Available Packages
ansible.noarch 2.9.27-1.el8 epel
ansible-collection-ansible-posix.noarch 1.2.0-1.el8 epel
ansible-collection-community-general.noarch 3.8.6-1.el8 epel
ansible-collection-community-mysql.noarch 3.1.0-1.el8 epel
ansible-collection-microsoft-sql.noarch 1.1.0-1.el8 appstream
ansible-collection-netbox-netbox.noarch 3.5.1-1.el8 epel
ansible-collection-redhat-rhel_mgmt.noarch 1.0.0-2.el8 appstream
ansible-doc.noarch 2.9.27-1.el8 epel
ansible-freeipa.noarch 0.3.8-1.el8 appstream
ansible-freeipa-tests.noarch 0.3.8-1.el8 appstream
ansible-pcp.noarch 2.2.1-1.el8 appstream
ansible-test.noarch 2.9.27-1.el8 epel
centos-release-ansible-29.noarch 1-2.el8 extras
python-sphinx_ansible_theme-doc.noarch 0.3.2-1.el8 epel
python3-ansible-lint.noarch 3.5.1-1.el8 epel
python3-sphinx_ansible_theme.noarch 0.3.2-1.el8 epel
vim-ansible.noarch 3.2-1.el8 epel
I don’t run it myself, but would a simple dnf install ansible not pull in all the required packages?
If you can’t see the EPEL packages, ensure that you have already installed epel-release.noarch.
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I use that centos-release-ansible-29 repository. It is maintained by CentOS SIG and has different packaging than EPEL.
@jlehtone do you use Ansible at all? I am wondering if I should add the epel-release. I had to dig a little deeper than I would hope but found instructions to install epel-release and then install ansible, both using yum|dnf.
Yes, I do, but I run most of it from CentOS 7 machines. (The managed systems have been CentOS 5, 6, 7, 8, and Alma 8, 9.)
I did use EPEL-version for a while, but then found CentOS SIG repos, which like module streams do not rebase. So now I do have done:
dnf install centos-release-ansible-29 # to get repo
dnf install ansible # to get program
However, the Ansible 2.9 is old now, and if RHEL 8.6 will have ansible-core and EPEL add more tools for it, then it makes sense to do now:
dnf install epel-release # to get repo
dnf install ansible # to get program
(If one is running from Alma, ect. With CentOS 7 I have to consider more carefully whether it makes sense – there will be some porting of playbooks, I presume.)
I’ve written most of the roles and playbooks that I use myself as that did support learning the tool.
Red Hat offers “system roles” now and documents them within RHEL docs, so those are a good option too.
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Again, I don’t use it. If it helps Alma/EPEL 9 appears to be geared up:
$ dnf list *ansible*
AlmaLinux 9.0-beta - BaseOS 2.7 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:01
AlmaLinux 9.0-beta - AppStream 6.4 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
AlmaLinux 9.0-beta - Extras packages 6.8 kB/s | 3.8 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - x86_64 1.9 MB/s | 5.5 MB 00:02
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 9 - Next - x86_64 231 kB/s | 167 kB 00:00
Available Packages
ansible-collection-community-general.noarch 4.7.0-1.el9 epel
ansible-collection-community-mysql.noarch 3.1.0-2.el9 epel
ansible-collection-community-rabbitmq.noarch 1.1.0-1.el9 epel
ansible-collection-containers-podman.noarch 1.9.3-1.el9 epel
ansible-collection-microsoft-sql.noarch 1.1.0-2.el9 appstream
ansible-core.x86_64 2.12.2-1.el9 appstream
ansible-freeipa.noarch 1.6.3-1.el9 appstream
ansible-freeipa-tests.noarch 1.6.3-1.el9 appstream
ansible-packaging.noarch 1-1.el9 epel
ansible-pcp.noarch 2.2.2-2.el9 appstream
ansible-test.x86_64 2.12.2-1.el9 appstream
python3-ansible-lint.noarch 1:5.0.7-1.el9 epel
- all at your own risk of course!
Thanks @jlehtone this is the way I went last night.
I wasn’t sure if there was another way, but this did work for me on ALMA Linux.
Thanks @MartinR , I installed the epel-release package for the EPEL repo and then installed Ansible from there.