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All these examples are tested on EC Instance created using the AMI for Amazon Linux.

You can install ansible on any of the EC2 Instance created with Amazon Linux AMI using below command

sudo amazon-linux-extras install ansible2 

Verify ansible version using below.

ansible –version

You should see output similar to below

Below are some of the basic commands to start with

Test SSH connectivity with the local machine

ansible localhost -m ping	

create a new file 'inputfile.txt' in the user home directory on local machine

ansible localhost -m shell -a "touch inputfile.txt"	

list contents of home directory on the local machine

ansible localhost -m shell -a "ls -ltr /home/ec2-user"	

Install wget on local machine using the shell module

ansible localhost -m shell -a "yum install wget" -b	

Install wget on local machine using yum module (as root user)

ansible localhost -m yum -a "name=wget state=present" -b	

Uninstall wget from local machine, using yum module and elevate privileges to root

ansible localhost -m yum -a "name=wget state=absent" -b