On 13. okt. 2017 22:09, sandev singh wrote:
> Hi, I am new to ansible and learning it. I installed it using pip on my Mac
> book, but when try to go to the default inventory location:
> /etc/ansible/hosts, it says -
> 
> *sandevs-MacBook-Air:~ sandevsingh$ cd /etc/ansible*
> 
> *-bash: cd: /etc/ansible: No such file or directory*
> 
> I have checked that ansible is installed on my MacBook-
> 
> *sandevs-MacBook-Air:~ sandevsingh$ ansible --version*
This is normal with the pip install.
I don't recommend using /etc/asnible, I do recommend using some kind of 
version control system(VCS) like git.
Create a directory in you home directory, eg. ansible.
In this directory create a file called ansible.cfg with following content
[default]
inventory = hosts
With this you inventory file will be called hosts, but you can change 
that to whatever you want.
When you are in this directory ansible -version will show something like 
this
# ansible --version
ansible 2.4.0.0
   config file = /root/ansible/ansible.cfg
   configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', 
u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
   ansible python module location = 
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
   executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
   python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 
20160609]
Then you can add this a VCS and track all the changes and share the code 
with other.
-- 
Kai Stian Olstad