fatal localhost FAILED changed false msg boto required for this module

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to provision OS on top of the AWS cloud using Ansible Playbook, but it is showing me the below error.

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "boto required for this module"}

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

As ansible use the python library in the backend, so you need to install the boto module in your system. This is a python module that helps to connect the AWS cloud and launch an EC2 instance. You can use the below command to download the boto module.

$ pip3 install boto