
Ansible delegation madness: delegate_to and variable substitution
This is going to be a short piece but I really want to share this because 1) I have to talk! It cost me several hours today to get a grip on this and 2) I couldn’t find any explanation of this Ansible behaviour on Stack Overflow or anywhere else (I actually posted this on SO to make sure it’s now there). By the way, I was reminded today that it can save you several hours of bug tracking, experimenting and general hair-tearing if you just know to ask....