To install ansible-core on RHEL 8.6 and later

[aishwaryabk]

Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Kamat aishwarya.kamat@ibm.com

[Prajyot-Parab]

/lgtm

[Prajyot-Parab]

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[yussufsh]

@aishwaryabk did you try running this on CentOS stream image? both 8 and 9.
I did install a simple Centos8 stream image and I could not find ansible on it, ansible-core is available.

[root@bastion ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Stream release 8
[root@bastion ~]# yum repolist
repo id                                                                                      repo name
appstream                                                                                    CentOS Stream 8 - AppStream
baseos                                                                                       CentOS Stream 8 - BaseOS
extras                                                                                       CentOS Stream 8 - Extras
[root@bastion ~]# yum list | grep ansible
ansible-collection-microsoft-sql.noarch                 1.2.4-1.el8                                                appstream
ansible-collection-redhat-rhel_mgmt.noarch              1.1.0-2.el8                                                appstream
ansible-core.ppc64le                                    2.14.1-1.el8                                               appstream
ansible-freeipa.noarch                                  1.9.0-1.el8                                                appstream
ansible-freeipa-tests.noarch                            1.9.0-1.el8                                                appstream
ansible-pcp.noarch                                      2.2.5-1.el8                                                appstream
ansible-test.ppc64le                                    2.14.1-1.el8                                               appstream
centos-release-ansible-29.noarch                        1-2.el8                                                    extras

[aishwaryabk]

@yussufsh I had tried on Centos8-stream and it installed

ansible [core 2.13.5]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /root/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.16 (main, Jan 17 2023, 19:02:02) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-18)]
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True

[aishwaryabk]

yum install -y ansible installs ansible [core 2.13.5]
whereas yum install -y ansible-core installs ansible-core 2.14.1-1.el8.
As per the code, it will install ansible [core 2.13.5]

[yussufsh]

/approve
As per results given by @aishwaryabk

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