# Ansible OS provisioning for AIX

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403 "2016-02-01T16:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![SM1986](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@SM1986](https://forum.ansible.com/u/SM1986)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/1 "2016-02-01T16:11:11Z")

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Is there the ability to provision AIX with Ansible. If so, is there any blog/run-through that can walk me through it?

Appreciate it,

SM

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/2 "2016-02-01T16:12:33Z")

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Not sure what you mean by 'provision' or in what context, but there  
are a few AIX and Ansible users out there, I am not aware of any docs  
though.

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**Author:** ![SM1986](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@SM1986](https://forum.ansible.com/u/SM1986)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/3 "2016-02-01T16:17:59Z")

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In other words, I’m wondering can I create an AIX operating system / deploy it using Ansible

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/4 "2016-02-01T16:28:21Z")

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probably ... again, not sure of in what context, 'create an AIX  
operating system' does not tell me much

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**Author:** ![mirkaleem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@mirkaleem](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mirkaleem)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/5 "2016-02-01T17:03:41Z")

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Hello Brian,

So basically as you create server in Amazon using Ansible we would like to create a server or atleast deploy the operating system using Ansible.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Shulman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@Michael\_Shulman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Shulman)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/6 "2016-02-01T17:06:21Z")

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There would be nothing stopping you from using ansible to ssh to an hmc and carve an lpar, and then start a nim push and then netboot the lpar. I’m not aware of any ansible specific docs on this

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**Author:** ![mirkaleem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@mirkaleem](https://forum.ansible.com/u/mirkaleem)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-os-provisioning-for-aix/20403/7 "2016-02-01T22:32:51Z")

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Thank you Michael will try that.

Thanks  
Kaleem Mir