How to create a file locally with ansible templates on the development machine

Question

I\'m starting out with ansible and I\'m looking for a way to create a boilerplate project on the server and on the local environment with ansible playbooks.

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Answer 1

Ansible has a local_action directive to support these scenarios which avoids the localhost and/or ansible_connection workarounds and is covered in the Delegation docs.

To modify your original example to use local_action:

- name: create some file
    local_action: template src=~/workspace/ansible_templates/somefile_template.j2 dest=/etc/somefile/apps-available/someproject.ini

which looks cleaner.