On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4:33:06 PM UTC-7, Gaetano Giacalone wrote:
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> even free on utube. 😊
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> *Sent: *Wednesday, March 20, 2019 2:45 PM
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> *Subject: *[ansible-project] Do the target systems need to have
> pre-requisitesinstalled for Ansible to work?
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> Hello,
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> 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:
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> “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.”
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> 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:
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> “The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.”
> boto
> boto3
> botocore
> python >= 2.6
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> 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?
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> Thank You
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