pip3 ansible package needed when running on ubuntu 20.04

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Ansible framework providing a fast and simple way to spin up complex Splunk environments.

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pip3 ansible package needed when running on ubuntu 20.04 #26

Closed MattUebel closed 7 months ago

MattUebel commented 2 years ago

Opening this one for visibility, and perhaps an update to the docs

Received this error running deploy_site.yml:

Malformed output discovered from systemd list-unit-files

Saw similar message at https://github.com/DataDog/ansible-datadog/issues/274

This seems to occur on Ubuntu 20.04 (at least), and is related to the default ansible package for the distribution being out of date.

I was able to resolve it by installing the pip3 version of ansible, which is 2.12.4 currently.

splunkenizer commented 2 years ago

In general the playbooks should work with ansible 2.7+ but that seems not to be the case for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, lots of linux distros ship with way outdated ansible and python versions. I might need to check the ansible version in the code. I have added this to the known issues section in the readme.