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until, as happened to us, you're in the middle of an upgrade cycle, with a mix of red-hat 6 and red-hat 8 servers, and ansible decide to require support for the latest available version of python on red-hat 8, which isn't available on red-hat 6, so we have no way of using ansible to manage both sets of servers.

The python ecosystem is a cancer.

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mkesper 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, you were free to install a version of Python3 on the CentOS6 machines, that's what we ended up doing and using for Ansible. Python 2.6 support of Ansible was a bad lie, multiple things broke already. 10 years of support without acknowledging changes of ecosystem just don't work.

	▲	vrighter 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		we did, but then most ansible modules still didn't work on the system. They advertise the no-agent thing and how it does everything over ssh, and instead require python to be installed on all your servers because it generates python code and runs it on the remote machine. And somemodules require specific versions sometimes.

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cess11 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, and I'm also not a fan of RedHat. We ran Ubuntu and Debian on that gig, the few Python issues we ran into we could fix with some package pinnings and stuff like that.