Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible AWS - ansible collection amazon.aws — Video Tutorial

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.whl Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 19.3.1 Uninstalling pip-19.3.1: Successfully uninstalled pip-19.3.1 Successfully installed pip-22.1.2 (venv) [devops@demo ~]$ pip3.8 install boto3 Collecting boto3 Downloading boto3-1.24.27-py3-none-any.whl (132 kB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 132.5/132.5 kB 392.0 kB/s eta 0:00:00 Collecting botocore<1.28.0,>=1.27.27 Downloading botocore-1.27.27-py3-none-any.whl (9.0 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━