Ansible command from inside virtualenv?

Question

This seems like it should be really simple:

tasks:
- name: install python packages
  pip: name=${item} virtualenv=~/buildbot-env
  with_items: [ buildbot ]
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Answer 1

As I commented above, I create a script, say it is called buildbot.sh:

source ~/buildbot-env/bin/activate
buildbot create-master [and more stuff]

Then run it on the remote with a task like this:

- name: Create buildbot master
  script: buildbot.sh

To me this still seems unneccessary, but it maybe cleaner than running it in a shell command. Your playbook looks cleaner at the cost of not seeing immediately what the script does.

At least some modules do seem to use virtualenv, as both django_manage and rax_clb already have an inbuilt virtualenv parameter. It may not be such a big step for Ansible to include a command-in-virtenv sort of module.