Hii
We use ansible in a few dozen separate virtualenvs, which causes quite a lot of disk space to be used because of the large number of included collections.
Rather than starting another discussion about that, I wanted to share a shell helper that installs a slimmed down ansible version:
https://github.com/GEANT/scripts
In our use case it saved about 10GB.
Hope it may be helpful for others.
thx!
Dick