Ansible on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using Virtualenv

Installation Guide:

1. Creating an instance on GCP – Compute Engine
2. SSH access to the Cloud Machine
3. Installing pre-requisites and dependencies
4. creating a virtual environment
5. using PIP, install Ansible Control Host

Section-1: Creating VM on GCP – Compute Engine
Step-01: Create a standalone VM instance on the compute engine

Step-02: Enter the name, select Zone and type of machine

Step-03: Select the boot disk

Step-04: Add firewall rules and start VM

Section-2: SSH access and login to Ansible Control Host VM
Step-01: Login to VM

Step-02: Update the cache and install Pre-Requisites

Section-03: Pre-Requisites Installation
Step-01: Check if required software have been installed

Step-02: Installing Virtualenv

Section-04: Create Virtualenv and Activate
Step-01: Create an isolated virtual environment

Step-02: Activate virtualenv

Step-03: check if the required software are available

Section-05: Install Ansible
Step-01: Installing Ansible in a virtual environment
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$ pip install ansible

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Step-02: Check Ansible installation

Step-03: Validating and verifying Ansible installation