I may install python3, create a virtual env and install my ansible-core there 
then symbol link to the actual os 😂

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> On 4 Jul 2023, at 08:45, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:42 AM cool prat <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi @Nico Kadel-Garcia,
>> 
>> Thanks for your detailed reply.
>> 
>> I am trying to understand it. So there is some split and ansible and 
>> ansible-core is separated now. I can see in the Redhat Downloads (with 
>> whatever subscription i have)
>> the latest package for ansible for RHEL7 is `ansible-2.9.27-1.el7ae`.  No 
>> `ansible-core` i can see for RHEL7.  Can see its available for el8, el9.
>> 
>> There is no ansible package for RHEL7 that supports python3?
>> 
>> I have installed python3 on the system but unable to use it for the 
>> currently installed ansible (2.9.9).
>> Because of this (unable to use python3 on controller node) i am getting 
>> issue in using `kubernetes.core.k8s_info` (as its only support python3 and 
>> not python2). The error message you can see here - 
>> https://pastebin.com/zEx6qTXk
> 
> RHEL 7's copy of "ansible" predates the very peculiar split to
> "ansible-core", which has most of the old code, and a package called
> "ansible" which is dependent on ansible-core, takes up half a Gig of
> space, and consists of more than 100 ansible galaxy collection nodes,
> and doesn't actually contain ansible.
> 
> Jump to RHEL 8 to install ansible-core of a current release: or
> install python3 and python3 -pip, and use this:
> 
>    pip3 install ansible-core --user
> 
> i actually publish hooks to build RPMs for recent backports of the
> "ansible-core" and "ansible" packages, but I gave on the obsolete RHEL
> 7 python 3 a while ago.
> 
> Nico Kadel-Garcia
> 
> 
>> Can you please tell me, what if i want to do this via .rpm way and not used 
>> pip for this?
>> 
>> Is using pip install the only way to have python3 support for ansible 
>> package on controller node on RHEL7 machine?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>> On Friday, June 30, 2023 at 4:41:57 PM UTC+5:30 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 10:30 AM cool prat <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Team,
>>>> 
>>>> I want to use python3 for using k8s module (`kubernetes.core.k8s_info`) on 
>>>> the ansible controller node which RHEL 7.
>>>> 
>>>> Python2 is already installed. I have installed python3.
>>>> 
>>>> I am trying to use python3 by setting ansible_python_interpreter var but 
>>>> its still showing that its using python version 2 in the command like 
>>>> ansible --version.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> `ansible_python_interpreter` is already set at multiple level and even 
>>>> after using all the options together, its still not picking up python3 and 
>>>> giving same error.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Have set the var ansible_python_interpreter at i) inventory, ii) playbook, 
>>>> iii) /home/sac/ansible.cfg and iv) with -e option as well in 
>>>> ansible-playbook` command.
>>>> 
>>>> i) Added in inventory -
>>>> 
>>>> # ans.ini #localhost ansible_connection=local localhost 
>>>> ansible_python_interpreter=/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/python3.6
>>>> 
>>>> ii) added in playbook
>>>> 
>>>> - hosts: localhost connection: local gather_facts: no vars: 
>>>> ansible_python_interpreter: /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/python3.6 
>>>> tasks: . .
>>>> 
>>>> iii) ansible.cfg
>>>> 
>>>> # cat ansible.cfg [defaults] ANSIBLE_PYTHON_INTERPRETER = 
>>>> /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/python3.6 interpreter_python = 
>>>> /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/python3.6 ansible_python_interpreter = 
>>>> /opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/python3.6
>>>> 
>>>> iv) Added as -e in ansible-playbook command,
>>>> 
>>>> ansible-playbook -i ans.ini ans.yml -e 
>>>> 'ansible_python_interpreter=/opt/rh/rh-python36/root/usr/bin/python3.6'
>>>> 
>>>> Below showing python 2.7.5
>>>> 
>>>> # ansible --version ansible 2.9.27 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg 
>>>> configured module search path = [u'/home/sac/.ansible/plugins/modules', 
>>>> u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = 
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible executable location = 
>>>> /bin/ansible python version = 2.7.5 (default, Nov 16 2020, 22:23:17) [GCC 
>>>> 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)]
>>>> 
>>>> How can i make changes so that ansible will start using python 3
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> RHEL 7 published RPMs for a package called "ansible" are from before
>>> the split, to "ansibl-core" which actually has ansible, and the
>>> "ansible" package which does not contain ansible, it has a dependency
>>> on "ansible-core" and installs more than 100 additional modules from
>>> the ansible galaxy collection. It really should have been called
>>> "ansible_collections" .
>>> 
>>> You're going to hurt yourself if you keep trying to use that. In the
>>> short term, you can use "pip3 install --user ansible-core" to get a
>>> much more recent version, ansible-core 2.11. Or bump up to RHEL 8 and
>>> you can get a contemporary ansible-core via RPM and avoid these
>>> issues.
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