If you are using RHEL 8 then you can use the subscription manager to get Ansible with the host and config file pre-built.

Also, you will need to create an account on https://developers.redhat.com before you can do this:

subscription-manager register --auto-attach

subscription-manager repos --enable ansible-2.8-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms

yum -y install ansible

ansible --version
Answer from Aryan Srivastava on Stack Overflow
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