No easy way to install Ansible on all OS's

[rndmh3ro]

Right now there's no easy way to install Ansible on the different operationg systems:

• Debian 6 does not have a package
• Oracle 6.4 misses PyYAML

For Debian ansible-omnibus is currently used: Omnibus downloads and runs the following shell script:

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python-dev python-setuptools
cd /tmp && wget http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-latest.tar.gz
tar xzf ansible-latest.tar.gz
cd ansible-* && sudo python setup.py install

One could also install (with the help of this shell script) python-pip and then install Ansible with pip install ansible.
The only problem now is that you have to know when to use apt-get or yum or foo-package-manager.
For that we could use pacapt. This script tries to determine the correct package manager and run the appropriate command (e.g. yum or apt-get). Right now pacapt doesn't support unattended upgrades (e.g. yum install foo --yes), but I created a issue for that.

[chris-rock]

should we move this ticket to hardening-io/ansible-ssh-hardening? I think the issue is not related to the serverspec tests.

[rndmh3ro]

Ansible gets installed during the converge-phase of the tests and this is only relevant for testing, not in real usage.
Also it will be a general issue for all future ansible-*-hardenings, so is there a more general place to put it?
But I don't care where the issue resides, so if you want, I'll close this one and reopen it in ansible-ssh-hardening.

[chris-rock]

I think we should open an issue at https://github.com/neillturner/kitchen-ansible, because I do not see a proper way to fix this issue in our tests. The cross-platform installation should be solved once in kitchen-ansible. Do you agree?

[rndmh3ro]

Yes, you're right. Ansible-kitchen installs Ansible on rhel and ubuntu boxes already, so it should install it on Debian as well. I'll create a issue for it in ansible-kitchen.