As mentioned before, Ansible is a really simple application with very few dependencies. You can install Ansible on your computer using your operating system's package manager or through pip (Ansible is written in Python):

$ sudo pip install ansible  

This will install some binaries, libraries, and Ansible modules. Note that no daemon or database is installed as Ansible by default simply relies on static files and SSH to run.

At that point, we are ready to use Ansible.