Ansible create a virtualenv using the venv module

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Flux picture Flux · Mar 3, 2017 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

How can one use Ansible to create a virtualenv using the venv module from Python3's standard library?

Manually, one would do this to create a venv (virtual environment):

python3 -m venv <venv-name>

How do I do this using Ansible?

Answer

joemeilinger picture joemeilinger · Mar 30, 2017

I ran into the same issue tonight and found that specifying the full path to the interpreter, including the arguments, worked for me (at least it does in ansible==2.2.2.0):

- pip:
     requirements: /website/requirements.txt
     virtualenv: /opt/website-venv
     virtualenv_command: /usr/bin/python3.6 -m venv

or

- pip:
    requirements: /opt/project/requirements_prod.txt
    virtualenv: /opt/.virtualenv/project_env
    virtualenv_python: python3

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