can't fire and forget from a list - looking for other options

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I’m trying to work around the following limitation: lookup plugins (with_*) cannot be used with async tasks

My objective is to startup a set of listeners on a set of servers using socat. My thwarted plan was
Host_vars/hostname
listeners: [234, 567, 890]

  • name: setup listeners
    command: socat TCP-LISTEN:{{ item }},crlf,fork GOPEN:/dev/null
    with_items: listeners
    async: 10
    poll: 0

Any suggestions on how I could rework my approach?