# How to install RHEL on mutiple nodes using ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** rhel\
**Created:** [July 26, 2016, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120 "2016-07-26T07:10:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![PUJA\_MUDALIAR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/35a633/32.png) [@PUJA\_MUDALIAR](https://forum.ansible.com/u/PUJA_MUDALIAR)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120/1 "2016-07-26T07:10:12Z")

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Please help me with the configuration of ansible for setting up servers with RHEL 7

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Totterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Paul\_Totterman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Totterman)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120/2 "2016-07-27T11:39:24Z")

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> Please help me with the configuration of ansible for setting up servers with RHEL 7

Ansible is more for setting up / configuring already installed servers. Use something else (kickstart?) for installing.

Cheers,  
Paul

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Janssen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Mark\_Janssen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Janssen)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120/3 "2016-07-27T11:52:42Z")

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Search for ‘ansible-provisioning’ on github… there are a few examples…  
Basically it sets up your kickstart environment (or cloud-infra) … and then kickstarts systems.

Next steps are then to run ansible against the newly built systems.

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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Groten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Ryan\_Groten](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ryan_Groten)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120/4 "2016-07-29T19:17:14Z")

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We use Ansible to automatically deploy new RHEL servers from an existing template (with cloud-init enabled). Specifically the ovirt module to launch VMs from templates in ovirt, but the same could easily be done with other major hypervisors.

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**Author:** ![Marco\_van\_Dam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Marco\_van\_Dam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marco_van_Dam)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-install-rhel-on-mutiple-nodes-using-ansible/22120/5 "2016-08-10T08:56:40Z")

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just an idea, but why don’t you try Hashicop Atlas (or even better Packer) to create an image which you can deploy using Ansible?

We use it all the time. In combination with Vagrant you can share that image with your developers to.

Marco