[cynicalsecurity]

Ansible requires python to be installed on all of the target computers.

[hoherd]

That's not necessarily true. There is the raw module that executes a bare command. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/...

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Yeah, but at that point you've lost a lot of the benefits to using ansible.

[hoherd]

Ansible uses this module to configure devices where it is impossible to install python, like network devices, which is one of ansible's big strengths.

[mmsc]

are there any linux distributions which don't require python installed, other than embedded?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

OpenSUSE, Fedora/RHEL, Gentoo, and probably Debian (and derivatives of all of the above) have it by default, but Alpine and Arch don't appear to.

[1vuio0pswjnm7]

Yes.