Install Ansible on macOS Monterey with Homebrew — Video Tutorial

How to Install Ansible for Mac Universal (Intel Chip and Apple Silicon) using Homebrew? Homebrew is an incredible package manager for macOS, allowing you to install and maintain up-to-date software easily. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot. Links - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ansible code Ansible is available as package “ansible” in Homebrew Package Manager for Mac Universal (Intel Chip and Apple Silicon) installation ```bash lberton@Lucas-MBP ~ % brew install ansible Running `brew update --auto-update`... ==> Auto-updated Homebrew! Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core). ==> New Formulae highway You have 1 outdated formula installed. You can upgrade it with brew upgrade or list it with brew outdated. ==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/ansible/manifests/6.4.0 Already downloaded: /Users/lberton/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/d0e2c11f4aa8bcabca08e582a38531b294bba158e761cd4058f9d4a98029475d--ansible-6.4.0.bottle_manifest.json ==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/ansible/blobs/sha256:0a173d0d505628d07 Already downloaded: /Users/lberton/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/8b047b2c1cc2bf0f7df03f22f0a78d5d971620e195e7bdcfc7b954448ac781fc--ansible--6.4.0.arm64_monterey.bottle.tar.gz ==> Pouring ansible--6.4.0.arm64_monterey.bottle.tar.gz 🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/6.4.0: 28,126 files, 347.7MB ==> Running `brew cleanup ansible`... Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP. Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`). lberton@Lucas-MBP ~ % ``` verification ```bash % ansible --version ansible [core 2.13.4] config file = None configured module search path = ['/Users/lberton/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/6.4.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible ansible collection location = /Users/lberton/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections executable location = /opt/homebrew/bin/ansible python version = 3.10.6 (main, Aug 30 2022, 04:58:14) [Clang 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.5)] jinja version = 3.1.2 libyaml = True lberton@Lucas-MBP ~ % ``` Conclusion Now you know how to install Ansible for Mac Universal (Intel Chip and Apple Silicon) using Homebrew in macOS. Related Articles - [Can Ansible Install an OS?](/articles/can-ansible-install-an-os) - ['How to install Ansible in Pop!_OS 24.04 — Ansible install'](/articles/how-to-install-ansible-in-pop-os-24-04-ansible-install) - [Install Ansible on macOS: Homebrew & pip Installation Guide](/articles/how-to-install-ansible-in-macos-ansible-install)