# Ansible 2.8 will work on RHEL8 with python 3.6. **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 29, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785 "2022-06-29T09:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sathish\_subramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@sathish\_subramani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sathish_subramani)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/1 "2022-06-29T09:34:46Z")
Hi Team, Ansible 2.8 will work on RHEL8 with python 3.6. Reference : [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/stable-2.8](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/stable-2.8) Thanks and Regards, S Sathish ---
**Author:** ![Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nico_kadel-garcia/32/9998_2.png) [@Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_Kadel-Garcia)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/2 "2022-06-29T10:44:07Z")
Why would you want to? Why would you not use the available ansible-core 2.12 RPM? Let's keep "ansible" and "ansible-core" straight, by the way. Ansible got re factored some years back, and what's in the github repo called "ansible" is packaged as "ansible-core" over at pypi.org, even though it's python modules are all referred to as "ansible" modules, and the tarball should really be called "ansible". The package now called "ansible" contains not a single line of those modules or the executable tools. It's a collection of more than 100 third-party ansible galaxy collection modules, assembled by tools at [https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-dat](https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-dat), and the python module directory in which they are installed is called "ansible\_collections" just as the tarball should be called "ansible\_collections" over at pypi.org. This comes up often enough that it's a sensitive subject, and the developers are probably pretty tired of hearing that the labels are so consistently confusing. ---
**Author:** ![sathish\_subramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@sathish\_subramani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sathish_subramani)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/3 "2022-07-01T10:16:30Z")
Hi Team, Currently we are using ansible 2.8 on top of RHEL 7 with consist of python2.7 we need to understand ansible 2.8 will work on python3.6 system(RHEL 8) or it will work only on python2.7 system(RHEL7). Thanks and Regards, S Sathish ---
**Author:** ![Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luca_remix_tj_Lorenz)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/4 "2022-07-01T10:32:24Z")
Hello Satish, this was reported on ansible 2.7 documentation: Currently Ansible can be run from any machine with **Python 2 (version 2.7) or Python 3 (versions 3.5 and higher)** installed. Anyway i suggest you to switch to ansible 2.9 which is the latest supported version of ansible 2.x branch. Migrating from 2.8 is not hard. Luca Luca ---
**Author:** ![sathish\_subramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@sathish\_subramani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sathish_subramani)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/5 "2022-07-01T10:45:51Z")
Thanks Luca for below clarity. While checking ansible 2.9 already “Unmaintained (end of life)” , how we are saying ansible 2.9 is latest supported version of ansible 2.x branch. [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference\_appendices/release\_and\_maintenance.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html) Thanks and Regards, S Sathish ---
**Author:** ![Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Luca\_remix\_tj\_Lorenz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luca_remix_tj_Lorenz)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 11:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/6 "2022-07-01T11:57:37Z")
Hello, i was not up to date with community deprecation of 2.9. I’m using ansible 2.9 from redhat 7. Luca ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/7 "2022-07-01T18:44:16Z")
ansbile-core 2.13 is the latest version as of this post. ---
**Author:** ![sathish\_subramani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@sathish\_subramani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sathish_subramani)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/8 "2022-07-03T01:40:22Z")
Hi Brian/Team, In RHEL 8.6 come with python3.6 as default with Long term support. As application system we need to stick with long term support package. As per ansible-core 2.13 requirement sheet dependencies Python 3.8+ support required is mentioned. our question ansible-core 2.13 will able to compile, build ansible-core rpm and execute ansible functionality using python3.6 will work? [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/requirements.txt](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/requirements.txt) Python3 support document below link it say ansible2.5 onward support python3 with version of Python 3.5 or greater. [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference\_appendices/python\_3\_support.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/python_3_support.html) Thanks and Regards, S Sathish ---
**Author:** ![Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nico_kadel-garcia/32/9998_2.png) [@Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_Kadel-Garcia)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/9 "2022-07-03T11:39:01Z")
> Hi Brian/Team, > > In RHEL 8.6 come with python3.6 as default with Long term support. As application system we need to stick with long term support package. > > As per ansible-core 2.13 requirement sheet dependencies Python 3.8+ support required is mentioned. > > our question ansible-core 2.13 will able to compile, build ansible-core rpm and execute ansible functionality using python3.6 will work? > > [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/requirements.txt](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.13/requirements.txt) It can be easily built with "pip3.8 install --user ansible-core" Compiling it as an RPM is.... notably harder, because it relies on jinja2 \>= 3.0.0, and building up the dependency chain as RPMs is... well, it's painful. I publish RPM building tools over at [https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo/](https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo/), and you're welcome to play with them. The full suite of dependencies being built up for Fedora is.... much, much larger, because someone elected to add "pywinrm", which has a very large dependency chain. > Python3 support document below link it say ansible2.5 onward support python3 with version of Python 3.5 or greater. > > [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference\_appendices/python\_3\_support.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/python_3_support.html) Those directions do not install the most current release of ansible-core, because they use the default python3 and install somewhat older versions. It's confusing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/10 "2022-07-05T13:28:58Z")
Also note that the 'ansible core' and the 'ansible targets' have different dependencies, core in general requires newer python and keeps compatibility for modules to execute on older pythons on the target. ---
**Author:** ![Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/nico_kadel-garcia/32/9998_2.png) [@Nico\_Kadel-Garcia](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_Kadel-Garcia)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-8-will-work-on-rhel8-with-python-3-6/36785/11 "2022-07-06T02:31:26Z")
> Also note that the 'ansible core' and the 'ansible targets' have > different dependencies, core in general requires newer python and > keeps compatibility for modules to execute on older pythons on the > target. Frankly, the current "ansible" package should never be instlalled anywhere by default. It's not needed, at all. ansible-core contains all the important python modules and executable tools, except for a very bulky and unnecessary suite of roughly 100 third party modules, only a few of which are of use on a normal ansible sysetup and each of which can be installed more efficientlywith the ansible galaxy collection commands. Stick to ansiblc-core.. There are RPMs for ansibl-core 2.12 on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, and ansible-core 2.13 can be installed with the python38 optional installation if you feel the need. I publish RPM building tools for ansible 6 and ansible-core 2.13 over at [https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo/](https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo/), if you feel the need to that upgrade in the short term, but I don't recommend it for production use yet. ansible-core 2.13.1 upstream relies on "pywinrm", and the dependency chain for that is a nightmare. Nico Kadel-Garcia