{"id":9569,"date":"2026-08-13T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:30:54","slug":"my-ansible-install-on-a-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/my-ansible-install-on-a-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ansible Install on a PI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Useful Links:
https:\/\/geektechstuff.com\/2019\/06\/25\/installing-ansible-raspberry-pi\/<\/a>

https:\/\/geektechstuff.com\/2019\/06\/27\/ansible-setting-up-ssh-raspberry-pi\/<\/a>

https:\/\/docs.ansible.com\/projects\/ansible\/latest\/reference_appendices\/config.html#ansible-configuration-settings-locations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did the install commands:
sudo apt-get update<\/em>
sudo apt-get upgrade<\/em>
sudo apt install ansible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

this did not create the default directory \/etc\/ansible or the default config files so had to do the following:
sudo mkdir -p \/etc\/ansible
sudo touch \/etc\/ansible\/ansible.cfg \/etc\/ansible\/hosts<\/em>
ansible-config init –disabled > ansible.cfg
sudo mv ansible.cfg \/etc\/ansible\/ansible.cfg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now check the config:
ansible \u2013version<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now edited the hosts file for ansible
sudo pico -w \/etc\/ansible\/hosts<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and put in a test group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[test]
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

errored as predicted in https:\/\/geektechstuff.com\/2019\/06\/25\/installing-ansible-raspberry-pi\/<\/a> but I did not like the solution of ssh keys, so I found how to add name and password to host file:
[test]
192.168.0.212

[test:vars]
ansible_user=user
ansible_password=*******<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and that worked for what I want (to be able to log into switches and routers to run commands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Host 192.168.0.*
kexalgorithms +diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie- hellman-group1-sha1
HostkeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa
Ciphers +aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

had to modify hosts file as follows:

[sw]
192.168.0.12
192.168.0.22
192.168.0.32
192.168.0.42

[sw:vars]
ansible_connection=network_cli
ansible_network_os=cisco.ios.ios
ansible_user=______
ansible_password=_____

[router]
192.168.0.11
192.168.0.21
192.168.0.31
192.168.0.41

[router:vars]
ansible_connection-network_cli
ansible_network_os_cisco.ios.ios
ansible_user=______
ansible_password=_____<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

then got error saying I was missing paramiko so I had to do the following:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y python3-paramiko<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that I tested with the following command:
ansible sw -m ansible.netcommon.cli_command -a “command=’show ip interface brief'”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and got correct response from connected\/configured switch! YAY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

other useful command for testing is:
ansible sw -m ansible.netcommon.cli_command -a “command=’show version | include Cisco IOS”<\/em>

ansible sw -m ansible.netcommon.cli_command -a “command=’show version | include register”<\/em>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Started working on my first playbooks…..

looking at:
https:\/\/github.com\/colin-mccarthy\/ansible-playbooks-for-cisco-ios<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

to execute playbook:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml<\/em>
[note playbooks CAN have parameters passed to them…for example:
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e “app_version=2.4.1 environment=production”<\/em>
where {{ app_version }} will have the value of 2.4.1 and {{ environment }} will have value of production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Useful Links:https:\/\/geektechstuff.com\/2019\/06\/25\/installing-ansible-raspberry-pi\/ https:\/\/geektechstuff.com\/2019\/06\/27\/ansible-setting-up-ssh-raspberry-pi\/ https:\/\/docs.ansible.com\/projects\/ansible\/latest\/reference_appendices\/config.html#ansible-configuration-settings-locations Did the install commands:sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgradesudo apt install ansible this did not create the default directory \/etc\/ansible or the default config files so had to do the following:sudo mkdir -p \/etc\/ansiblesudo touch \/etc\/ansible\/ansible.cfg \/etc\/ansible\/hostsansible-config … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9620,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions\/9620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}