{"id":26860,"date":"2016-11-08T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26860"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:03:43","slug":"install-ansible-2-0-on-amazon-ami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/08\/install-ansible-2-0-on-amazon-ami\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Ansible 2.0+ on Amazon AMI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, while upgrading some of my Ansible roles I’ve hit the problem.  Some of the newer roles require Ansible 2.0<\/a>.  My Amazon AMI machine that runs the playbooks was still on version 1.9.  EPEL repository doesn’t seem to have the newer Ansible version yet.  Gladly, Google brough in this StackOverflow thread<\/a>, which suggested installing Ansible with pip, not with yum.  This helped a lot:<\/p>\n

\nrpm -e ansible\npip install ansible\n<\/pre>\n
It actually brought in Ansible v2.2<\/a> (see also Ansible v2.1<\/a>), which is even better.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Today, while upgrading some of my Ansible roles I’ve hit the problem.  Some of the newer roles require Ansible 2.0.  My Amazon AMI machine that runs the playbooks was still on version 1.9.  EPEL repository doesn’t seem to have the newer Ansible version yet.  Gladly, Google brough in this StackOverflow thread, which suggested installing Ansible … Continue reading Install Ansible 2.0+ on Amazon AMI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Install Ansible 2.0+ on Amazon AMI #Ansible #AWS #SysAdmin #DevOps","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62,1334],"tags":[3270,3476,3383,2366,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-amazon-aws","tag-amazon-linux-ami","tag-ansible","tag-cloud-computing","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26227,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/07\/forcing-amazon-linux-ami-compatibility-with-centos-in-ansible\/","url_meta":{"origin":26860,"position":0},"title":"Forcing Amazon Linux AMI compatibility with CentOS in Ansible","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the things that makes Ansible so awesome is a huge collection of shared roles over at Ansible Galaxy. \u00a0These bring you best practices, flexible configurations and in general save hours and hours of hardcore swearing and hair pulling. 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