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Galaxy Installation with Ansible
Abstract
This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Ansible and are comfortable with writing and running playbooks. If not, please consider following our Ansible Tutorial first.
About This Material
This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.
Questions this will address
- How does the Galaxy Ansible module work internally?
- How can I install a Galaxy server with Ansible
Learning Objectives
- Have an understanding of how Galaxy's Ansible roles are structured and interact with one another
- Be able to use an Ansible playbook to install different flavors of Galaxy for different purposes
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Keywords: Galaxy Server administration, ansible, deploying, git-gat
Competency level: • Beginner
Target audience: Galaxy Administrators
Resource type: e-learning
Version: 109
Status: Active
Prerequisites:
- A VM with at least 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM, preferably running Ubuntu 20.04 - 22.04.
- Ansible
Learning objectives:
- Have an understanding of how Galaxy's Ansible roles are structured and interact with one another
- Be able to use an Ansible playbook to install different flavors of Galaxy for different purposes
Date modified: 2026-01-23
Date published: 2019-01-28
Authors: 
Helena Rasche, Nate Coraor, Simon Gladman
Contributors: Dave B., Edwin den Haas, Gildas Le Corguillé, Kweyakie Afi Blebo, Anthony Bretaudeau, Armin Dadras, Björn Grüning, Bérénice Batut, Gianmauro Cuccuru, Helena Rasche, John Chilton, Marius van den Beek, Mélanie Petera, Tunc Kayikcioglu, Martin Čech, Mira Kuntz, Nate Coraor, Nicola Soranzo, Peter van Heusden, Saskia Hiltemann, Simon Gladman, Lucille Delisle, Tomas Klingström, Vlad Visan
Scientific topics: Database management, Informatics, Data management
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