diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 2e2e1be89c..6554abba82 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -298,6 +298,46 @@ pidof, tty, taskset, pmap.")
 (define-public python2-psutil
   (package-with-python2 python-psutil))
 
+(define-public python2-ansible
+  (package
+    (name "python2-ansible")
+    (version "1.9.2")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append
+             "https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/ansible/ansible-"
+             version
+             ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32
+         "007fzgsqaahb0y4gjdxxmir9kcni7wph2z14jhqgpz88idrz8pn2"))))
+    (build-system python-build-system)
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)
+       ("python2-pycrypto" ,python2-pycrypto)
+       ("python2-httplib2" ,python2-httplib2)
+       ("python2-passlib" ,python2-passlib)
+       ("python2-nose" ,python2-nose)
+       ("python2-mock" ,python2-mock)
+       ("python2-jinja2" ,python2-jinja2)
+       ("python2-pyyaml" ,python2-pyyaml)
+       ("python2-paramiko" ,python2-paramiko)))
+    (inputs
+     `(("python2-pycrypto" ,python2-pycrypto)
+       ("python2-jinja2" ,python2-jinja2)
+       ("python2-pyyaml" ,python2-pyyaml)
+       ("python2-paramiko" ,python2-paramiko)))
+    (arguments
+     `(#:python ,python-2)) ; incompatible with Python 3
+    (home-page "http://ansible.com/")
+    (synopsis "Radically simple IT automation")
+    (description "Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system.  It
+handles configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning,
+ad-hoc task-execution, and multinode orchestration - including trivializing
+things like zero downtime rolling updates with load balancers.")
+    (license gpl3+)))
+
 (define-public python-passlib
   (package
     (name "python-passlib")