diff --git a/pkgs/tools/admin/ansible/2.4.nix b/pkgs/tools/admin/ansible/2.4.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dd9c12c831c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/admin/ansible/2.4.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{ stdenv
+, fetchurl
+, pythonPackages
+, windowsSupport ? false
+}:
+
+pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "ansible";
+  version = "2.4.0.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0xkwnx817rygb1922gncv9ivgvb7hjg8g53r39hfdm3jgzp6y9qs";
+  };
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    sed -i "s,/usr/,$out," lib/ansible/constants.py
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = false;
+  dontStrip = true;
+  dontPatchELF = true;
+  dontPatchShebangs = false;
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [
+    pycrypto paramiko jinja2 pyyaml httplib2 boto six netaddr dns
+  ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional windowsSupport pywinrm;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://www.ansible.com;
+    description = "A simple automation tool";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl3 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [
+      jgeerds
+      joamaki
+    ];
+    platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7a32a3380420..6bef03ff8365 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6859,8 +6859,9 @@ with pkgs;
   ansible_2_1 = callPackage ../tools/admin/ansible/2.1.nix {};
   ansible_2_2 = callPackage ../tools/admin/ansible/2.2.nix {};
   ansible_2_3 = callPackage ../tools/admin/ansible/2.3.nix {};
-  ansible  = ansible_2_3;
-  ansible2 = ansible_2_3;
+  ansible_2_4 = callPackage ../tools/admin/ansible/2.4.nix {};
+  ansible  = ansible_2_4;
+  ansible2 = ansible_2_4;
 
   antlr = callPackage ../development/tools/parsing/antlr/2.7.7.nix { };