Combining local_action and delegate_to

[Amir Al-Shourbaji]

I want this module to run locally on a host i delegate_to

    - name: Add Host to dhcp config

      local_action:
        module: lineinfile
        dest: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
        line: "host {{ inventory_hostname}} {hardware ethernet {{ macaddress }};fixed-address {{ inventory_hostname}}; }"
      notify: restart dhcpd

      delegate_to: anarbitraryhost

Doesn't seem to work - are local_action and delegate_to mutually exclusive?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

local_action is the same as delegate_to: localhost.
So you can't use them together since it gives no meaning, either you want it to run on localhost or anarbitraryhost.

If you want to run in on both you need two tasks.


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Kai Stian Olstad