Ansible Troubleshooting

Legacy setup failed

Problem

When Ansible is executing the gathering information task the following error is shown:

fatal: [host]: FAILED! => changed=false
  ansible_facts: {}
  failed_modules:
    ansible.legacy.setup:
      failed: true
      msg: 'ansible-core requires a minimum of Python version 3.8. Current version: 3.7.3 (default, Mar 23 2024, 16:12:05) [GCC 8.3.0]'
  msg: |-
    The following modules failed to execute: ansible.legacy.setup
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Solution

Migrate the server to a newer OS release.