[rwmj]

Ansible the client, or the target? Ansible doesn't need anything installed on the target (except sshd). For the client which presumably would be installed explicitly on far fewer machines it would bring in whatever Python it needs. I don't know if it uses System Python or a module however since I don't have it installed on RHEL 8 right now.

[slrz]

Ansible does require that some flavour of Python is available on the target hosts. Without a Python interpreter, you're basically restricted to using the raw module (which, of course, you may use to bootstrap Python by invoking the package manager).

Still, I guess most people don't bother with that and just assume the presence of Python (at least on Linux, the bootstrap-using-raw approach is already required on FreeBSD and others).

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/raw_module.h...

[shoo]

> Ansible does require that some flavour of Python is available on the target hosts.

Support for managing windows hosts with ansible is implemented by replacing the use of SSH & python with winrm & PowerShell respectively.