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

If you cannot do/allow localhost SSH, you can split the playbook on local actions and remote actions.

The connection: local says to not use SSH for a playbook, as shown here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_delegation.html#local-playbooks

Example:

# myplaybook.yml

- hosts: remote_machines
  tasks:
  - debug: msg="do stuff in the remote machines"

- hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - debug: msg="ran in local ansible machine"

- hosts: remote_machines
  tasks:
  - debug: msg="do more stuff in remote machines"