Installation Of rpm Packages In Linux Using Ansible

What is Ansible?

Ansible is a Orchestration, configuration management tool (installation and deployment). Ansible is a suite of software tools that enables to configure systems,deploy software and orchestrate advanced workflows to support application deployment,system updates and more……it is automation tool that can be used to mange large group of computer systems.

we can manage and configure of other servers called slave servers from a single server called Master server.

Where can we configure the hosts file or Inventory Path?

we can configure the hosts file.Before we create a basic configuration, I want to take a moment to explain the Ansible file/folder structure. You’ll note that if you list the files/folders in /etc/ansible that you’re presented with the following.

/etc/ansible/hosts
sudo vi /etc/ansible/hosts

Is Ansible Agent-based or Agentless?

Ansible is primarily agentless, meaning that it does not require any software to be installed on target hosts. Instead, Ansible uses SSH (or other connection methods) to communicate with remote hosts and execute tasks. This agentless architecture simplifies deployment and reduces overhead.

How many working methods in Ansible?

There are two working methods in ansible

1.Ad-hoc: An ansible Ad-hoc command uses the /usr/bin/ansible command-line tool to automate a single task on one or more managed nodes/slave servers these commands are quick and easy but not reusable.

2.playbook: Ansible uses a simple YAML syntax called “playbooks” to describe automation tasks and configurations.

Ansible, a strong computing automation tool, expands its capabilities beyond configuration management to package management, including the installation of RPM packages on Linux frameworks.RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is a package management system executives framework utilized by different Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora. Ansible improves on the method involved with managing RPM packages across multiple hosts by providing a declarative and idempotent approach. Ansible abstracts away the complexities of RPM package management, allowing clients to focus on defining the desired state of their frameworks as opposed to the perplexing details of package installation.

While deploying applications, managing libraries, or guaranteeing framework consistency, Ansible smoothes out the establishment lifecycle making it effective repeatable, and adaptable.

In this guide, we will explore how to use Ansible to install RPM packages on Linux systems, empowering administrators to maintain framework trustworthiness and effectiveness easily.