Install ansible on Debian 9

What is ansible?

Ansible It is a platform free software to configure and manage computers. It combines multi-node installation, ad hoc task executions and configuration management. Additionally, Ansible is categorized as an orchestration tool.¹handle nodes through SSH and requires no additional remote software (except Python 2.4 or later²to install it. It has modules that work on JSON and standard output can be written in any language. Natively uses YAML to describe reusable system configurations.³​

We update and install the necessary packages

Installation from source:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install make git make python-setuptools gcc python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev

sudo pip install sphinx

We download Ansible

git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible

We access the directory:

cd ansible

We list all stable versions

git branch -a | grep stable

remotes/origin/stable-1.9

remotes/origin/stable-2.0

remotes/origin/stable-2.0-network

remotes/origin/stable-2.0.0.1

remotes/origin/stable-2.1

remotes/origin/stable-2.2

remotes/origin/stable-2.3

We select the version we want to install:

sudo git checkout stable-2.3

We compile and install

sudo make && sudo make install

To install it via repository:

apt install ansible

All the best

:wq!