On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, at 5:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I’m a little confused about how Ansible works: Since its “clientless” it
> makes it sound like you don’t need to install software on the target hosts
> in order to run playbooks to configure them. From the documentation:
>
> “Ansible works by connecting to your nodes and pushing out small programs,
> called "Ansible modules" to them. Ansible then executes these modules (over
> SSH by default), and removes them when finished.”
>
> This sounds like the only place you would need to install prerequisite
> software would be on the “control host” where Ansible is installed, not on
> the remote hosts you want to configure. However, When looking at the
> documentation for the modules, I see things like this:
>
>
> “The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.”
> boto
> boto3
> botocore
> python >= 2.6
>
>
> What is “the host that executes this module”? Is this the control host
> where you installed Ansible or the remote host that you want to change with
> the playbook?
>
These are required on the host you want to change.
V/r,
James Cassell
> Thank You
>
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