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Hi All,

I have just started learning ansible to use it with Cisco IOS. I try several playbook and I see that there is connection:local, I am a bit confused as I know we are not run the playbook against our local machine. Please advice or give me sore reference on this. Thanks

Regards,
Albert

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So most networking appliances don't have python installed, which
ansible requires to manage systems. To work around this most 'network
appliance modules' use either an API or a special management of the
connection themselves. These execute 'local' in the sense that the
module's python code runs on the Ansible controller, but the actions
are executed on the remote network appliance.

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Thanks for your explanation.