Run Ansible Playbook Locally

At times, we require an Ansible Playbook to run locally on the host server. Few examples are given below -

1. Using Ansible Commandline

ansible-playbook --connection=local --inventory 127.0.0.1, playbook_name.yml

2. Using Ansible Inventory File

We can also, add the host in an inventory file such as -

127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local

3. Using Ansible Configuration File

[defaults]
transport = local

4. Using Playbook Header

- hosts: 127.0.0.1
    connection: local

Source: GitHub Gist - Ansible playbook Locally

Reference(s):

• Configuring Ansible - Ansible Documentation

• Implicit 'localhost' - Ansible Documentation