Unable to install NiFi Registry Service on CM

NiFi Registry (or other services) failed to install on brand new Node with following error:

Service did not start successfully; not all of the required roles started: only 0/1 roles started. Reasons : Service has only 0 NiFi Registry roles running instead of minimum required 1.

Check on /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/1546351536-nifiregistry-NIFI_REGISTRY_SERVER/scripts/logs/stdout.log

WARN/ERROR: Command 'python' doesn't work, please check environment is configured properly. It could cause NiFi start to fail: /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent/process/1546351536-nifiregistry-NIFI_REGISTRY_SERVER/scripts/common-scripts/basecontrol.sh: line 5: python: command not found

Check on OS side (RHEL8)

$ python
python: command not found

Caused: Since RHEL8 python link is not set by default. User must select which python2 or python3 version they preferred.

$ alternative --config python
then select python2 binary