Quick post on getting Ansible working with an Ubuntu 16.04/Xenial server.
I have a bunch of nodes running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and I need to put them under configuration management. This is a default Xenial image which does not have Python 2.7 apparently. No problem!
I can use the raw module to get Python 2.7.
ansible_host$ ansible --sudo -m raw -a "apt-get install -y python2.7 python-simplejson" some_group
SNIP!
Setting up python2.7 (2.7.12-1~16.04) ...
Setting up libpython-stdlib:amd64 (2.7.11-1) ...
Setting up python (2.7.11-1) ...
Setting up javascript-common (11) ...
Setting up libjs-jquery (1.11.3+dfsg-4) ...
Setting up python-simplejson (3.8.1-1ubuntu2) ...
Now I can run ansible ping.
$ ansible -m ping some_group
10.20.1.30 | success >> {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
10.20.1.25 | success >> {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
10.20.1.113 | success >> {
"changed": false,
"ping": "pong"
}
Done!
Of course it would probably be a better idea to create an AWS image that has Python 2.7 already installed.
Futher, if you want to do it from a playbook, just make sure to set gather_facts to false.
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: ensure python 2.7 is installed
raw: apt-get install -y python2.7 python-simplejson
# try pinging now
- ping: