Ansible® on Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
A ready-to-use Ansible® control-node image featuring a pipx-managed Ansible setup designed to accelerate Azure automation and provisioning workflows.
This offer Ansible® on Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS provides a preconfigured Linux virtual machine with a pipx-managed Ansible control-node environment optimized for automation and provisioning tasks in Azure. The image delivers a clean, isolated Ansible setup that supports consistent and reproducible Infrastructure-as-Code workflows while reducing the need for manual installation, dependency management, or Python environment troubleshooting. pipx delivers an isolated Ansible runtime decoupled from system Python, allowing any Ansible version to be installed, upgraded, or rolled back without affecting OS packages. It prevents dependency collisions, supports consistent execution across users, and enables rapid adoption of new Azure modules and collections. This approach ensures a clean, reproducible control-node environment optimized for automation at scale.
This solution is designed for DevOps engineers, cloud platform teams, SREs, and IT professionals who rely on Ansible to automate Azure infrastructure, streamline configuration management, and orchestrate multi-tier workloads with reliability and predictability.
Typical use cases include:
- Provisioning Azure resources through idempotent, Ansible-driven automation
- Executing configuration management tasks across distributed systems
- Integrating with CI/CD pipelines for repeatable deployment automation
- Standardizing Ansible execution environments across engineering teams
- Running orchestration workflows for hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure
Key features:
- pipx-managed Ansible for isolated, predictable, and easily upgradable automation environments
- Global auto-completion support for improved workflow efficiency
- The VM includes the Azure Ansible Collection and its required Python dependencies
- Prevalidated setup tailored for Azure resource provisioning and cloud automation
- Clean minimal Linux environment with no unnecessary packages, reducing operational overhead
- Consistent runtime behavior suitable for development, testing, and production automation use cases
Technical details:
- The Ansible venv is installed system-wide and accessible to all users at: /usr/local/lib/pipx
- Newly created users must log in at least once to initialize their local pipx environment correctly
- A system-level initialization script for activating pipx environments is available at: /etc/profile.d/pipx.sh
Deploy a ready-to-use, maintainable, and scalable Ansible control node — purpose-built to streamline automation and accelerate Azure-focused Infrastructure-as-Code workflows.
Note:
Before running Ansible playbooks targeting Azure services, ensure that you authenticate using the appropriate Azure authentication method (for example, service principal login or Azure CLI login).
Disclaimer
This virtual machine includes third-party software components that are the sole responsibility of their respective developers or vendors. Their inclusion does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Belinda CZ s.r.o. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.