# Ansible + Packer = nothing?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-packer-nothing/21883>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-packer-nothing/21883 "2016-06-29T00:02:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-packer-nothing/21883/1 "2016-06-29T00:02:01Z")

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I am currently experimenting with deploying using Packer’s Ansible local provisioning and for some odd reason, it doesn’t appear to be executing the tasks in the playbook. Packer, after installing the pre-requiresites for Ansible, uploads the following

Inventory file (“hosts”)

[localhost]

localhost ansible\_connection=local

The playbook file (“local.yml”):