Life happens everywhere no matters where you are. And in all that places, your smartphone is always with you so let’s have Ansible with us everywhere.

How to get Ansible on Android?

Pre-requirements:

For that we need Termux in first place. For installing it, only F-Droid’s version is valid. so:

  1. Install F-Droid or F-Droid client. I’ve prefer Droidify so let’s go for it. Download it from here
  2. Once installed, dowload from it Termux
  3. Now I’ve recomend to configure some things in it using this

Install Ansible

For installing Ansible, first things are install dependencies:

pkg update && pkg upgrade -y
pkg install binutils python rust libffi openssl clang make git build-essential -y
export ANDROID_API_LEVEL=24
export LDFLAGS="-L${PREFIX}/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I${PREFIX}/include"
pkg install python-pip -y
pip install cryptography
pip install ansible

That will take a while. Relax and let it finish. Once it’s done, you can verify if Ansible is installed by running:

ansible --version

Extra tip

If you plan to update Ansible or any other Rust packages, It’s recomended to export this.

echo "export ANDROID_API_LEVEL=24" >> ~/.bashrc

Test Ansible on Android

Now that we have Ansible correctly installed, let’s play with it. The easiest test is to ping a server. For doing that:

  1. Create an inventory.yml and fulfill it with:

     all:
 hosts:
   my_server:
     ansible_host: <ip>
     ansible_user: <user>

  2. Generate ssh-key in case you don´t have one:

     ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"

  3. Install your public ssh-key in the server:

     ssh-copy-id tu_usuario@IP_DEL_SERVIDOR

  4. To verify if the ssh-key is correctkly installed, just try:

     ssh <user>@<ip>

  5. Try to ping using ansible running:

     ansible -i inventory.yml all -m ping

    You should receive an answer like:

     my_server | SUCCESS => {
     "changed": false,
     "ping": "pong"
 }

And with that, you’re ready to go. Happy day!