I’ve written quite a few Ansible roles now and feel like I have a good grasp of what’s going on, but recently I’ve come across a strange response to my attempt to run a local shell command. Here’s my complete {{ role }}/tasks/main.yaml:
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It seems replacing 127.0.0.1 with localhost resolves the issue.
do you have a host in your inventory defined as 127.0.0.1? this would override the ‘implicit’ localhost which sets ansible_connection=local.