How to configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible AWS?
Using a Python Virtual Environment is a convenient way to maintain up-to-date Python dependency of the Ansible collection amazon.aws without interfering with your Linux system.
This initial configuration sometimes is a roadblock for some AWS users to start using Ansible.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Links
- [Ansible collection amazon.aws](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/index.html)
- [Python boto3](https://aws.amazon.com/it/sdk-for-python/)
Playbook
Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible AWS:
- boto3
How to Python Virtual Environment for Ansible AWS.
I’m going to show you how to configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible AWS to successfully use the Ansible collection amazon.aws of modules and plugins to manage various operations related to AWS infrastructure such as EC2, VPC, Security Groups, etc.
Ansible AWS modules are written on top of boto3. Boto3 is the Python SDK for the AWS that allows users to manage AWS infrastructure: EC2, VPC, Security Groups, etc.
code
``bash
$ python3.8 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip3.8 install --upgrade pip
(venv) $ pip3.8 install boto3
(venv) $ ansible-galaxy collection install amazon.aws
`
execution
``bash
$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.12.2]
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/home/devops/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /home/devops/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
python version = 3.8.12 (default, Sep 16 2021, 10:46:05) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-3)]
jinja version = 2.10.3
libyaml = True
[devops@demo ~]$ whereis python
python: /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3.6m /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/lib/python3.6 /usr/lib/python3.8 /usr/lib64/python3.6 /usr/lib64/python3.8 /usr/local/lib/python3.8 /usr/include/python3.6m /usr/include/python3.8 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
[devops@demo ~]$ python3.8 -m venv venv
[devops@demo ~]$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) [devops@demo ~]$ pip3.8 install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/96/2f/caec18213f6a67852f6997fb0673ae08d2e93d1b81573edb93ba4ef06970/pip-22.1.2-py3-none-any