Ansible Quickstart (Spring 2026)

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Every once in a while I have to learn the latest hell that is getting up and running with Ansible. There's all sorts of stuff now, like Navigators, Builders, and Executiion Environments. I just want to run some playbooks. Ansible's documentation has sucked for many years now (I remember one of their reps at a conference Q&A acting quite surprised that everyone felt that way; you've gotta wonder what the Red Hat bubble is like).

Anyway, this is verging into recipe blog life story territory.

Prerequisites: Python and pipx on a Linuxy system.

  1. pipx install --include-deps ansible
  2. pipx inject ansible requests (you can skip this probably; I need it for one of my inventory plugins)
  3. ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml