Offline Ansible Control Machine installation

Question

I need to install Ansible Control Machine behind a corporate firewall with no internet access. I can\'t find documentation for an offline install. I have access on my workst

Answer 1

I did a testing on my RH6, so if you have a RH6 with Internet access to download all required installation file, and a RH6 installation ISO. You should be able to achieve this.

Assuming you have a RH6 which has Internet access, let's call it A. And another one doesn't have access: B.

1. download Ansible and Jinja2 from A, and copy the files to B. For Ansible: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html Jinja2 is required for Ansible, download it here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Jinja2

2. Mount the RH6 installation ISO to your RH6 B, then install the required RPM. In my case, i installed PIP as well:

rpm -ivh python-paramiko-1.7.5-2.1.el6.noarch.rpm libyaml-0.1.3-4.el6_6.x86_64.rpm PyYAML-3.10-3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm perl-TermReadKey-2.30-13.el6.x86_64.rpm perl-Error-0.17015-4.el6.noarch.rpm python-six-1.9.0-2.el6.noarch.rpm

//following required for Git rpm -ivh --force --nodeps perl-Git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh git-1.7.1-3.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm

Note: i didn't install httplib2 here, you can do it later.

3. install MarkupSafe (required for Jinja2)

//install MarkupSafe

tar -xvf MarkupSafe-0.23.tar.gz

cd MarkupSafe-0.23/

sudo python setup.py install

4. install Jinja2

//install Jinjia2

tar -xvf Jinja2-2.8.tar.gz

cd Jinja2-2.8/

sudo python setup.py install

5. On RH6 B, you should be able to run Ansible now:

tar -zxvf ansible.tar.gz

source ./hacking/env-setup

echo "127.0.0.1" > ~/ansible_hosts

export ANSIBLE_INVENTORY=~/ansible_hosts

ansible --version