Install Ansible on Mac OSX

Brew Install

If you already have Homebrew installed, then it is as simple as:

> brew install ansible

That's it!

If you prefer to use Python and pip for the install, then read on...

Native Python Install - Summary:

Ansible uses Python and fortunately Python is already installed on modern versions of OSX.

Install Xcode
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install ansible --quiet

Then, if you would like to update Ansible later, just do:

sudo pip install ansible --upgrade

Native Python Install - Full explanation:

Ensure Xcode is installed first

Some of Ansible's dependencies need to be compiled, so you'll need the developer tools that come with Xcode.

You can check if you already have the developer tools by running this:

> pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables

(note: Before OSX Mavericks, the package to check for was "com.apple.pkg.DeveloperToolsCLI")

If the tools are not installed, you will see this output:

> pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
No receipt for 'com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables' found at '/'.

In that case, download and install Xcode from here.

If the tools are installed, you should see output similar to this:

> pkgutil --pkg-info=com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
package-id: com.apple.pkg.CLTools_Executables
version: 5.1.0.0.1.1396320587
volume: /
location: /
install-time: 1397415256
groups: com.apple.FindSystemFiles.pkg-group com.apple.DevToolsBoth.pkg-group com.apple.DevToolsNonRelocatableShared.pkg-group

Install pip

pip is Python's package manager. It isn't installed on OSX by default, but you can use Python's other package manager easy_install to install it:

> sudo easy_install pip
Password:
Searching for pip
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
Best match: pip 1.4.1
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pip/pip-1.4.1.tar.gz#md5=6afbb46aeb48abac658d4df742bff714
Processing pip-1.4.1.tar.gz
Running pip-1.4.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-hVr8Pt/pip-1.4.1/egg-dist-tmp-BY70iY
warning: no files found matching '*.html' under directory 'docs'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*.rst' found under directory 'docs/_build'
no previously-included directories found matching 'docs/_build/_sources'
Adding pip 1.4.1 to easy-install.pth file
Installing pip script to /usr/local/bin
Installing pip-2.7 script to /usr/local/bin
Installed /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for pip
Finished processing dependencies for pip

Install Ansible

> sudo pip install ansible
...lots of output and warnings you can ignore...
Successfully installed ansible paramiko jinja2 PyYAML pycrypto ecdsa markupsafe
Cleaning up...

Upgrade Ansible

When a new release of Ansible comes out, you can easily upgrade to the new version like this:

> sudo pip install ansible --upgrade

Post-Install Setup

Next, see the post-install steps...