Building Ansible

Building Ansible

Below versions of Ansible are available in respective distributions at the time creation of these build instructions:

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.2, 8.4, 8.5) have 2.9.27
• SLES 12 SP5 has 2.8.1
• SLES 15 SP3 has 2.9.6
• Ubuntu 18.04 has 2.5.1
• Ubuntu 20.04 has 2.9.6
• Ubuntu 21.10 has 2.10.7

Note: For Ubuntu (20.04, 21.10), please refer to this link to install Ansible from the community Ansible PPA (ppa:ansible/ansible).

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build Ansible latest version on Linux on IBM Z for the following distributions:

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.2, 8.4, 8.5)
• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP3)
• Ubuntu 18.04

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Note: Ansible(v5.4.0) was verified at the time of creation of these instructions

Step 1: Install dependencies

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9)

   sudo yum install -y gcc libffi-devel openssl-devel

• RHEL (8.2, 8.4, 8.5)

   sudo yum install -y python39-devel gcc libffi-devel openssl-devel

• SLES 12 SP5

  sudo zypper install -y libffi48-devel openssl-devel gcc make gzip

• SLES 15 SP3

  sudo zypper install -y gcc libffi-devel make openssl-devel wget

• Ubuntu 18.04

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install -y python3.8-dev python3.8 python3-markupsafe python3-pip gcc libffi-dev libssl-dev
  sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/bin/python
  python --version

• Install Python version 3.10.x (RHEL 7.x, SLES)

  • Instructions for building Python 3.10.x can be found here

Step 2: Install Ansible

sudo pip3 install cryptography==3.3.2
sudo pip3 install ansible                      # For RHEL, SLES 
sudo python -m pip install ansible             # For Ubuntu

Note: In case of an error sudo: pip3: command not found on RHEL or SLES, run above command as sudo -H env PATH=$PATH pip3 install ... instead of sudo pip3 install ....

Step 3: Verification (Optional)

Follow the official guide given here to verify the installation.

References

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible
• https://pypi.org/project/ansible/