Prerequisites

It's up to you how to install and work with Ansible, but in this theme for this documentation we're in Python world. (Ansible is written in Python). A tried and test method is to create a Python virtual environment and install Ansible wusing pip.

You may wish to include this Ansible work along side you application code, or have a separate standalone repository. My instinct is to keep things separate, breaking anything into small, manageable chunks always make life easier!

mkdir ~/ansible && cd ~/ansible

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install Ansible and the require AWS packages:

pip install ansible botocore boto3

To install Ansible on RHEL8:

subscription-manager repos --enable ansible-2-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

dnf install ansible

Check the version:

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.14.0]