The credstash lookup plugin requires credstash to be installed

Hi,

Sorry in advance if this is the wrong place to ask but maybe one of you has encountered that issue before. I try to use Credstash with Ansible:

{{ lookup('credstash', 'test.sample', 'region=eu-central-1') }}

but it always returns:

The credstash lookup plugin requires credstash to be installed

Everything is fine on the remote server: credstash is installed and can retrieve values from KMS…

[ykravch]

I had the same issue on MacOS X. Don’t use credstash with homebrew ansible installation.

1. brew uninstall ansible
2. pip install ansible that will help

[mblakele]

I’ve also seen this. Allowing import credstash to raise an exception yields ImportError: No module named credstash, even though import credstash works in a standalone python interpreter.

Could http://stackoverflow.com/a/41261228/908390 be relevant? Adding pdb.set_trace() shows me:

> /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.2.1.0/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/lookup/credstash.py(28)<module
-> import credstash
(Pdb) 
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: BdbQuit
fatal: [fubar]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}

EDIT: apparently it’s essential to use ansible as installed by pip, not homebrew.