local – execute on controller

Synopsis

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

Notes

Note

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

Status

Authors

  • ansible (@core)

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