Vagrant + Ansible + Python3

user_1767106 0
Viewed 5964

I have a Vagrantfile that is simplified to:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
  config.vm.boot_timeout = 900

  config.vm.define 'srv' do |srv|
    srv.vm.provision 'ansible' do |ansible|
      ansible.compatibility_mode = '2.0'
      ansible.playbook = 'playbook.yml'
    end
  end
end

When I run vagrant provision, at the Gathering Facts stage, I get /usr/bin/python: not found because Ubuntu 16.04 by default only has python3 not Python 2.x python installed.

I see several older posts about this. It seems recent versions of Ansible support using Python 3, but it must be configured via ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3 in the hosts file or on the ansible command line. Is there any way I specify this option in my Vagrantfile or in my playbook.yml file? I'm currently not using a hosts file, I'm not running ansible-playbook via command line, I'm running Ansible through the Vagrant integration.

FYI, I'm using Ansible 2.4.1.0 and Vagrant 2.0.1, which are the latest versions as of this writing.

vagrantfile vagrant ansible python
1 Answers

As far as I know, you can use in Vagrant file extra_vars make sure put it inside of ansible scope.

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
  config.vm.boot_timeout = 900

  config.vm.define 'srv' do |srv|
    srv.vm.provision 'ansible' do |ansible|
      ansible.compatibility_mode = '2.0'
      ansible.playbook = 'playbook.yml'
      ansible.extra_vars = { ansible_python_interpreter:"/usr/bin/python2" }
    end
  end
end

In above block extra_vars was set up withansible_python_interpreter or you can use host_vars like this: 

ansible.host_vars = {
        "default" => {
            "ansible_python_interpreter" => "/usr/bin/python2.7"
        }
    }
user_57282170
Related