Getting ansible (not core) version in the playbook

[Piotr Kowalczyk]

Good morning, 

Would you guys help me to understand how to get the Ansible correct version in the playbook? 

I have newest Ansible:

(ansible) poe@lime:~$ pip3 freeze | grep ansible
ansible==4.6.0
ansible-core==2.11.5
(ansible) poe@lime:~$

But `ansible_version` displays core version instead of ansible:

(ansible) poe@lime:~$ ansible localhost -m debug -a 'var=ansible_version.full'
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
localhost | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_version.full": "2.11.5"
}

 

Why is that so?

The same with `ansible --version`: 

(ansible) poe@lime:~$ ansible --version | head -1
ansible [core 2.11.5]

The only command I've found which showing Ansible (not core) version instead is:

(ansible) poe@lime:~$ python -c 'from ansible_collections.ansible_release import ansible_version; print(ansible_version)'
4.6.0

So the question is, is this expected? I mean, writing a playbook, I'd like to make sure that Ansible 4.6 is used (or not older). But `ansible_version` returns ansible core version - is something I should rely on instead? What's going on here? :)

Best, 

Piotr Kowalczyk

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[Dick Visser]

On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 10:15, 'Piotr Kowalczyk' via Ansible Project

<ansible...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> The only command I've found which showing Ansible (not core) version instead is:
>
> (ansible) poe@lime:~$ python -c 'from ansible_collections.ansible_release import ansible_version; print(ansible_version)'
> 4.6.0
>
> So the question is, is this expected? I mean, writing a playbook, I'd like to make sure that Ansible 4.6 is used (or not older). But `ansible_version` returns ansible core version - is something I should rely on instead? What's going on here? :)

I would use the above command and use the registered output.
Perhaps ansible would support this natively at some point.

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Dick Visser
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[Matt Martz]

To date, the decision has been that ansible-core does not discover or know anything about the ansible package.  The ansible package just drops collection bundles in a location where ansible-core will look.  The only way to get the ansible version is by the means you show, or by calling `pip`.

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