Installing Ansible

Install Ansible on a single control server. From this server, Ansible connects to remote endpoints and runs playbooks to deploy or configure Wazuh components.

Perform the following to install Ansible:

Installation on CentOS/RHEL/Fedora

Install the EPEL repository:
```
# yum -y install epel-release
```
Install Ansible:
```
# yum install ansible
```

Install Ansible using pip.
```
# pip3 install --upgrade --ignore-installed pip setuptools --user
# python3 -m pip install --user ansible
```
Note

You have to create the default configuration file /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and /etc/ansible/hosts inventory file if they are not created automatically. Please follow the steps below:
1. Create the /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg config file.
  # sudo mkdir -p /etc/ansible # sudo touch /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
2. Edit /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and add the following content.
  [defaults] inventory = /etc/ansible/hosts host_key_checking = False

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu

Update the repositories and install required dependencies:
```
# apt-get update
```

Setup Ansible repository:

# apt-get install lsb-release software-properties-common
# apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible
# apt-get update

# sudo apt-get install -y curl gnupg lsb-release
# curl -fsSL "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x93C4A3FD7BB9C367" | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/ansible.gpg
# echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ansible.gpg] http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu trusty main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ansible.list
# sudo apt-get update

Install Ansible:
```
# apt-get install ansible
```