Getting “msg: Failed to find required executable easy_install” when trying to bring up a vagrant instance with ansible

Question

One man. One mission. Configure a Vagrant machine with Ansible for use as a Python development environment.

I have attempted to provision a Vagrant machine with Ansi

Answer 1

It's trying to install pip by using easy_install name=pip. That's outdated, easy_install should no longer be used.

The current approach is to run get-pip.py (see installation instructions). The command to run in Ansible is then python get-pip.py.