Centos8

This is my note about installing FreeIPA on a CentOS 8 machine. It’s a bit different from the FreeIPA’s installation on CentOS 7, and most importantly there was a problem I came across during the installation and how to fix it. Configure Static IP [root@utility ~]# nmcli con mod enp1s0 ipv4.addresses 172.25.250.8/24 \ > ipv4.method manual \ > ipv4.gateway 172.25.250.254 \ > ipv4.dns 172.25.252.1 \ > connection.autoconnect yes [root@utility ~]# nmcli con up enp1s0 Ensure the hostname of this server exists in /etc/hosts. ...

On most Linux distribution, Ansible can be installed either using python3-pip or ansible package. I’m going to show how to get Ansible installed using the second method on CentOS 8. First add the EPEL repository to the CentOS 8 server. # yum localinstall https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm Next, install ansible package: # yum install ansible Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:49 ago on Sun 10 Nov 2019 09:33:22 PM AEDT. Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================= Installing: ansible noarch 2.8.5-2.el8 epel 15 M Installing dependencies: python3-babel noarch 2.5.1-3.el8 AppStream 4.8 M python3-jinja2 noarch 2.10.1-2.el8_0 AppStream 538 k python3-jmespath noarch 0.9.0-11.el8 AppStream 45 k python3-markupsafe x86_64 0.23-19.el8 AppStream 39 k python3-pyasn1 noarch 0.3.7-6.el8 AppStream 126 k libsodium x86_64 1.0.18-2.el8 epel 162 k python3-bcrypt x86_64 3.1.6-2.el8.1 epel 44 k python3-pynacl x86_64 1.3.0-5.el8 epel 100 k sshpass x86_64 1.06-9.el8 epel 27 k Installing weak dependencies: python3-paramiko noarch 2.4.3-1.el8 epel 289 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================= Install 11 Packages Total download size: 21 M Installed size: 104 M Is this ok [y/N]: Let’s confirm that the installation went ok by checking the version of ansible: ...