Installing Ansible in a virtual environment

In this recipe, we will outline how to install Ansible in a Python virtual environment in order to have an isolated and contained environment for developing and running our playbooks.

Getting ready

Python 3 must be already installed on your Linux machine.

How to do it...

1. Create a new Python virtual environment called dev, and activate it as follows:

$ python3 -m venv dev
$ source dev/bin/activate

2. Install Ansible in this new virtual environment, as follows:

$ (dev) $ pip3 install ansible==2.9

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