Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7

pm9448

I ran through the steps. I had to skip the 'git checkout stable-2.0.1' command. I got the following error:

it checkout stable-2.0.1
error: pathspec 'stable-2.0.1' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Regardless, I skipped the step, proceeded to the next step, built and installed the RPM successfully.

Thanks for making this easy. I was looking for the RPM but apparently it is not yet released.

scottalanmiller

As far as we can tell no RPM is forthcoming. No platform is getting the Ansible 2 updates, it seems. Not RPM, not DEB, not PIP.

scottalanmiller

@pm9448 said:

And welcome to the MangoLassi community, by the way!

scottalanmiller

Been a while since we talked about Ansible. How many people have been trying it out and/or using it?

thwr

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7:

Been a while since we talked about Ansible. How many people have been trying it out and/or using it?

I've just started playing with it. Plan is to control lots of Raspberry's, Banana Pi's, Beagle's and other SBC's.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7:

Been a while since we talked about Ansible. How many people have been trying it out and/or using it?

Still using it. I have it set up for everything here at work. Mostly been using ad hoc stuff, but I have a couple playbooks set up for things that are difficult to do during a kickstart.

thwr

By the way, is there some frontend available?Found something on SF, but that's just a better text editor. I don't mind hacking through textfiles, but I plan to give some of the administrative stuff to a colleague who is still new to the job.

Tower is just too expensive for us poor EDU guys.

scottalanmiller

A nice GUI would be awesome.

Romo

Haven't tried it personally, Semaphore Open source Ansible UI.

scottalanmiller

@Romo said in Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7:

Haven't tried it personally, Semaphore Open source Ansible UI.

https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore/raw/master/public/img/logo.png

thwr

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7:

@Romo said in Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7:

Haven't tried it personally, Semaphore Open source Ansible UI.

https://github.com/ansible-semaphore/semaphore/raw/master/public/img/logo.png

That's the one I've tried but it doesn't seem to do much at all

Romo

@thwr you could also try running Rundeck + ansible.

scottalanmiller

@Romo said in Installing Ansible 2 on CentOS 7:

@thwr you could also try running Rundeck + ansible.

Their site is not super obvious as to what they do. It's just a scheduler?

Romo

@scottalanmiller remote execution of commands and scripts + scheduler

stacksofplates

I tried Rundeck. It was more confusing than just using Ansible without a GUI. IMO, just having the playbook with yaml and jinja files is easier to read and use. GUIs always have at least one thing you need in a place you wouldn't think.

I guess I wouldn't mind having some reports in a GUI but I'll stick with just text files.