cyrilleverrier/portable-ansible

Ansible without requirements to be installed (for pull-mode)

Self-contained Ansible 2.5.2 distribution

Requirements

• ansible-2.5.2.0
• jinja2-2.10
• PyYAML-3.12
• paramiko-2.4.1
• six-1.11.0

How to install and use

You just need to download latest version of portable-ansible tarball (.tar.bz2) from Releases page https://github.com/ownport/portable-ansible/releases and unpack the files

$ wget https://github.com/ownport/portable-ansible/releases/download/ansible-2.5.2/portable-ansible-2.5.2.0.tar.bz2 -O ansible.tar.bz2
$ tar -xjf ansible.tar.bz2
$ python ansible localhost -m ping
 [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available

localhost | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

If you need to run ansible playbooks, after having extracted the tarball contents:

$ ln -s ansible ansible-playbook
$ python ansible-playbook playbook.yml

For developers

to collect all packages in ansible/ directory

$ make prepare-in-docker

or to create tarball with required packages

$ make tarball

Links

• ansible/ansible Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. http://ansible.com/
• ansible/ansible-modules-core Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible
• ansible/ansible-modules-extras Ansible extra modules - these modules ship with ansible