delegate_to and winrm is broken

[Stephen Bunn]

It seems that it is impossible to run a local task when talking to windows hosts.  This is pretty much a show stopper for my current use case of Ansbile.

ansible version:  ansible 2.1.1.0

using any of the following, all result in the same error

- name: deploy some stuff

  hosts: somewindowshosts

  gather_facts: True

  serial: 1

  pre_tasks:

    - name: disable {{ inventory_hostname }} from LB

      delegate_to: localhost

      connection: local

      command: /usr/bin/magic_lb_removal_script

      #local_action: command foo

      #delegate_to: 127.0.0.1

  roles:

     - { role: foo }

     - { role: bar }

<localhost> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: Administrator on PORT 5985 TO localhost

fatal: [172.28.18.158]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "plaintext: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=5985): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x21aa610>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))", "unreachable": true}

[Matt Davis]

I suspect you may have an inventory or command issue that's reassigning localhost's connection type to winrm (you're not adding -c winrm, are you?) - this sample works fine for me on both 2.1.1 and devel. The connection: local is not necessary, and works fine for me with either local_action or delegate_to: localhost. 

There are definitely some issues with cross-connection delegation with pseudo-connection-var rewriting when going the other way (delegating from Linux hosts to Windows), but this one looks like a busted inventory to me.

[Stephen Bunn]

I'm not sure how.  Can you provide a complete working example? My inventory file is pretty straight forward.  My inventory looks like this

[box1]

ip.address

[box2]

another.ip.address

[alpha:children]

ip.address

[beta:children]

another.ip.address

[somewindowshosts]

alpha

beta

[Matt Davis]

Where are you setting the connection types to winrm then?

[Stephen Bunn]

It is being include in a group_var for the hosts, is there a better way to do this?