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Among the multiple approaches to setting up your Ansible environment, a few of the most popular options are:
To install Ansible on a Linux server:
If you do not want to use virtual environments, you can skip steps 1 and 2. If you have decided to use virtual environments, you can activate the virtual environment upon login with an environment variable in the user’s .bash_profile.