Ansible fails with /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found

Question

I\'m running into an error I\'ve never seen before. Here is the command and the error:

$ ansible-playbook create_api.yml

PLAY [straw] **********************         


        

Answer 1

By default, Ansible requires Python 2, however, Ansible 2.2+ can work with Python 3 as well.

So either install Python 2 using the raw module, e.g.

ansible localhost --sudo -m raw -a "yum install -y python2 python-simplejson"

or set ansible_python_interpreter variable in the inventory file, like:

[local]
localhost ansible_python_interpreter="env python3"

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For Docker, you can add the following line:

RUN printf '[local]\r\nlocalhost ansible_python_interpreter="env python3"\r\n' > /etc/ansible/hosts

or run it as:

ansible-playbook /ansible/provision.yml -e 'ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3' -c local