How to trace/debug Ansible EC2 ?

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Hello
I have a problem with a simple Ansible playbook which launch an EC2 instance.
The instance configuration is slightly different (different block-device-mapping) when I launch the same AMI from EC2 dashboard.
To debug, I would like to see the exact AWS command Ansible/Boto runs.
ansible-playbook -vvv option does not provide it, how can I go deeper into the code and traces?

Thanks
Tzach

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Since the ec2 modules use boto, which doesn’t really execute commands, your best bet is to run your playbook with the environment variable ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 set, and with -vvv. This will allow you to examine the modules left on the target system (most likely localhost) and run them directly with your Python debugging method of choice (epdb, etc.).

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Since the ec2 modules use boto, which doesn't really execute commands,
your best bet is to run your playbook with the environment variable
ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 set, and with -vvv. This will allow you to
examine the modules left on the target system (most likely localhost) and
run them directly with your Python debugging method of choice (epdb, etc.).

Thanks I will try
Was not aware of ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1