ansible-galaxy fails to validate the SSL certificateurlopen error SSL CERTIFICATE VERIFY FAILED RROR - you can use --ignore-errors to skip failed roles and finish processing the list

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to install one role from Ansible Galaxy. But it is showing me the below error.

$ ansible-galaxy role install apache

[WARNING]: - ntp was NOT installed successfully: Failed to get data from the API server:
<urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:748)>
ERROR! - you can use --ignore-errors to skip failed roles and finish processing the list.

Answer 1

Hi@MD,

The most probable reason is that you are using an older version of python. I also faced the problem. Then I installed Python3 via brew and it solved my issue. Python 2 might have worked too since it would have been linked to a new OpenSSL.