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Learn Ansible - Second Edition
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Let’s dive straight in and install Ansible. Throughout this book, I will assume you are running a macOS host machine or a Linux machine with an Ubuntu LTS release. While we will cover running Ansible on Windows 11 using the Linux subsystem for Windows, this book will not support using Windows as a host machine.
You can install Ansible on your macOS host machine in a few different ways. I will cover both here. As we are discussing two different ways of installing Ansible, I recommend reading through this section and the Pros and cons subsection before choosing which installation method to use on your local machine.
The first installation method is to use a package manager called Homebrew.
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Homebrew is a package manager of macOS. It can be used to install command-line tools and desktop packages. It describes itself as “The missing package manager for macOS”, and it usually...