Now that we know a little about the background of Ansible, we will work on installing it and, once installed, we will run our first set of playbooks against a test virtual machine running CentOS 7. 

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• How to install Ansible on macOS and Linux
• Running Ansible on Windows 10 Professional using the Linux subsystem
• Launching a test virtual machine
• An introduction to playbooks