Ansible install

Ansible expects remote machines to share a similar environment to the machine you are using to control them. Every controlled machine must have a python interpreter, and it would be the best practice to manually define where each OS stores it's python interpreter. At this time, ansible requires python 2.x.

BSD

Locations
/usr/share/examples/ansible/*	example hosts/ansible.cfg configs
/usr/local/etc/ansible/hosts	defines machines to be controlled by ansible
/usr/local/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

setup ansible to control localhost

sudo pkg  install ansible
sudo pip2 install cryptography

/usr/local/etc/ansible/hosts

[freebsd]
127.0.0.1

[freebsd:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/local/bin/python2

ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521                                 # create ssh key
cat $HOME/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub >> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys  # add yourself to allowed ssh users
sudo service sshd restart                                  # reload sshd with new config

test install

ansible all -m ping               # test that you can ping all entries in hosts file.
ansible all -a '/bin/echo hello'  # run command on all hosts