Install Ansible

Ansible Fleet Provisioning for OpenClaw

Deploy OpenClaw across multiple servers simultaneously using Ansible. This guide covers provisioning, configuration management, and fleet-wide updates for enterprise deployments.

Prerequisites

• Ansible 2.15+ installed on your control node
• SSH access to all target machines
• Python 3.10+ on target machines

Playbook Structure

openclaw-ansible/
  inventory.yml        # Target hosts
  site.yml            # Main playbook
  roles/
    openclaw-install/  # Installation role
    openclaw-config/   # Configuration role
    openclaw-monitor/  # Monitoring setup

Basic Playbook

---
- name: Deploy OpenClaw Fleet
  hosts: openclaw_servers
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Install Node.js 22
      apt:
        name: nodejs
        state: present

    - name: Install OpenClaw
      shell: |
        curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash
      args:
        creates: /usr/local/bin/openclaw

    - name: Deploy configuration
      template:
        src: openclaw.config.json.j2
        dest: /etc/openclaw/config.json
      notify: restart openclaw

Fleet Management Commands

# Deploy to all servers
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml site.yml

# Update OpenClaw on all servers
ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml update.yml

# Check fleet health
ansible openclaw_servers -m shell -a "openclaw status"