ansible install packages code example

Example 1: Install ansible

On Fedora:
$ sudo dnf install ansible

On RHEL and CentOS:
$ sudo yum install ansible

On Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-add-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible
$ sudo apt install ansible

Using PIP:
$ pip install --user ansible

On Alpine:
$ apk add ansible

Example 2: Install ansible in alpine linux

$ apk add ansible

Example 3: ansible package

- name: install ntpdate
  package:
    name: ntpdate
    state: present

# This uses a variable as this changes per distribution.
- name: remove the apache package
  package:
    name: "{{ apache }}"
    state: absent

- name: install the latest version of Apache and MariaDB
  package:
    name:
      - httpd
      - mariadb-server
    state: latest

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