Install FortiOS Ansible Galaxy

This document explains how to install the FortiOS Ansible Galaxy Collection.

Install Python3

Follow steps in https://www.python.org/ to install Python3 on your host.

Install Ansible Core

Follow instructions in https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html to install Ansible
The Ansible core version requirement: >= 2.9.0

Install FortiOS Galaxy Collection

The FortiOS Ansible Galaxy supports multilple FortiOS major releases, you can install the latest collection by default via command ansible-galaxy collection install fortinet.fortios. you can also choose another galaxy version to match your FortiOS device.

Please see the versioning notes for more recently released collections and install the ones which are marked latest for your devices.