Information about the package, ansible, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ansible package is designed for, SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution.
Package Name:
ansible
Summary:
SSH-based configuration management, deployment, and task execution
URL:
Description:
Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.5.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
9.3 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the ansible package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ansible
This command will install ansible on the server.
yum remove ansible
This command will un-install ansible on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ansible, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ansible
This command will un-install ansible on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ansible when using the -y flag.
yum update ansible
This command will update ansible to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ansible, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ansible
This command will update ansible to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ansible when using the -y flag.
yum info ansible
This command will show you core information about the ansible package.
yum deplist ansible
This command will show you the dependencies for ansible. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update ansible
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ansible. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.