ansible-setup.md

Mac OS X Setup

1. Install git. This can be done via typing git at a terminal and installing Xcode Developer Tools, or from git-scm.com

2. Install the Homebrew Package Manager.

   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

3. Install wget with Homebrew.

   brew install wget

4. Install Python 3 via Homebrew. (Note: Python 3 is currently the default version provided by homebrew.)

   brew install python

5. Install Python utilities.

   # Retrieve pip installation script from web
   wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
   
   # Install pip into default Python installation 
   sudo -H python get-pip.py 
   
   # Install Virtual Environment with pip 
   sudo -H python -m pip install virtualenv 

6. Move to your working directory. (This is an example directory; use your local directory structure.)

   cd ~/Code/cvd-config-templates

7. Setup a Python Virtual Environment.

   virtualenv venv
   source venv/bin/activate 

8. Create a requirements list.

   echo 'ansible==2.4.2.0
   ncclient==0.5.3
   requests==2.18.4' > requirements.txt

9. Install Ansible requirements.

   pip install -r requirements.txt