Ansible ec2: “boto required for this module”

Question

When I run this simple Ansible playbook:

- name: EC2 Test Example
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: False

  tasks:
  - name: EC2 Instan         


        

Answer 1

The root cause of your problem is the -i localhost, hack. You don't need to use it anymore in Ansible.

You can just run:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml

And with connection: local in the play Ansible will use the Python executable set by venv.

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When you use the -i localhost, hack, Ansible calls its default /usr/bin/python.

In this case you still can add the ansible_python_interpreter parameter to tell Ansible to use this specific environment:

ansible-playbook -i localhost, playbook.yml --extra-vars "ansible_python_interpreter=/Users/admin/temp/ansec2/venv/bin/python" 

But I think you should avoid it and use the first method.