Also, depending on the operating system installed on your virtual machines (Ubuntu server should not have the issue, Debian might), you should install python 3:
```
# apt install python3
```
### The virtualenv
### The virtualenv
Since Ansible is written in python and we don't want to install it in the system, you will need to create a virtual environment. These are used to have your python stuff installed, without making them available system-wide, we are doing this to avoid polluting your lab machine with things that won't be used after today.
Since Ansible is written in python and we don't want to install it in the system, you will need to create a virtual environment. These are used to have your python stuff installed, without making them available system-wide, we are doing this to avoid polluting your lab machine with things that won't be used after today.