So you might be interested running ansible to configure your local machine. In this article, I’m going to show you the minimum steps that need to install Vim using Ansible on an Ubuntu host machine.
1. Install latest Ansible version from apt
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ansible
2. Create a folder (let’s call this “ansible”) under home directory
3. Create a file called ‘inventory‘ under the new folder and put following content in the file
localhost ansible_connection=local
4. Create a file called ‘vim.yml‘ under the new folder and put following content in the vim.yml file
--- - hosts: localhost tasks: - name: Install vim apt: name: vim update_cache: yes sudo: yes
5. Open terminal inside the folder and type
ansible-playbook -K -i inventory vim.yml
-K To ask for password
References:
- Intro to Playbooks, http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_intro.html#intro-to-playbooks
- Running ansible playbook in localhost, http://ansible.pickle.io/post/86598332429/running-ansible-playbook-in-localhost
