Let me explain the essence of the problem from beginning to end.

The idea is to set up a kubernetes cluster using kubespray.

One of the steps is to install ansible and other packages described in the requirements.txt file (I will omit the attempt itself, I will only say that installing ansible version 9.6.0 (required for the last github commit for kubespray), the error looks like this (from versions: none)).

So, I put the cluster installation issue aside and focused on installing ansible version 9.6.1.

Since yum doesn’t allow me to install packages from standard repositories like mirrorlist, I had to replace them with vault, so it was possible to install packages through yum directly.

sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*^C sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-*.
Resource: https://techglimpse.com/failed-metadata-repo-appstream-centos-8/

If I try to install python and with it PIP via yum, then I get version 3.6.

If I try to install Python manually, then I can install whatever python I want, but for some reason I can’t get the SSL module to work and I get this error.
https://serverspace.ru/support/help/obnovlenie-python-centos/?utm_source=yandex.ru&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=yandex.ru&utm_referrer=yandex.ru
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/ansible-core/.

I’m trying to fix it by using the flags:
–trusted-host pypi.python.org –index-url=http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Requests go through, but I get an error as an example (same if I specify ansible or ansible_core):
ERROR: No matching distribution found for jinja2>=3.0.0.0 (A problem for any package)

I also tried using the –with-openssl=”/etc/pki/tls” flag when I run the ./configured command, the installation finishes seemingly without error, but the certificate problem doesn’t go away.

So the only option I have is to download the packages manually, try to install them, find the dependencies, download them manually again and so on until all dependencies are installed.
Example error:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement setuptools>=66.1.0

I hope I have described the problem in enough detail.
PS: I tried installing ansible using centos7 and 8 image.
I also tried installing ansible using PIPX, same problem
Maybe I’m doing something wrong from the beginning

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