This got it for me!
Ansible threw out so many weird errors, once local connection was
specified... they all went away.
On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 5:24:05 PM UTC, Prasanna Siriki wrote:
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> Hi Matt,
>
> in the /etc/ansible/hosts
> host1 ansible_connection=local ansible_ssh_host=10.71.16.5
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>
So, after continuing to look at this it appears that SSH / paramiko are
working but the ping module is failing to load the python interpreter.
There are symbolic links already created from /usr/bin/python ---
/usr/bin/python2.7 I tried specifying the direct path to the hosts
file