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There are multiple approaches to installing Ansible in your environment. A few of the most popular options are:
Ansible is available as a native package that can be installed onto various operating systems. Ansible cannot be installed on Windows but can manage Windows hosts. To run Ansible on Windows, you can use Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows you to run a Linux environment inside Windows.
Note: How to use WSL is outside the scope of this paper.
This paper focuses on installation using Python virtual environments. That option is the easiest to use when testing Ansible because uninstalling Python is as easy as removing the directory for the virtual environment.