Ansible fails with /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/python: not found

Question

I\'m running into an error I\'ve never seen before. Here is the command and the error:

$ ansible-playbook create_api.yml

PLAY [straw] **********************         


        

Answer 1

You need python 2.7 to run Ansible. On Ubuntu 16.04, you can install it via this command:

sudo apt-get install python-minimal

After that, I could run

ansible-playbook -i inventories/staging playbook.yml

Please check more at Using ansible on Ubuntu 16.04