ansible.builtin.local – execute on controller

Note

This connection plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short plugin name local even without specifying the collections: keyword. However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same connection plugin name.

Synopsis

  • This connection plugin allows ansible to execute tasks on the Ansible ‘controller’ instead of on a remote host.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
pipelining
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Default:
"ANSIBLE_PIPELINING"
ini entries:

[defaults]
pipelining = ANSIBLE_PIPELINING

env:ANSIBLE_PIPELINING
var: ansible_pipelining
Pipelining reduces the number of connection operations required to execute a module on the remote server, by executing many Ansible modules without actual file transfers.
This can result in a very significant performance improvement when enabled.
However this can conflict with privilege escalation (become). For example, when using sudo operations you must first disable 'requiretty' in the sudoers file for the target hosts, which is why this feature is disabled by default.

Notes

Note

  • The remote user is ignored, the user with which the ansible CLI was executed is used instead.

Authors

  • ansible (@core)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/local_connection.html