Upgrade playbook fails: "This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite"

Issue

Upgrade playbook fails with:

fatal: [server.example.com]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 2, "changed": true, "cmd": ["yum", "makecache"], "delta": "0:05:53.852248", "end": "2019-06-03 15:05:23.249103", "failed": true, "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2019-06-03 14:59:29.396855", "stderr": "\n\n[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/rhel-x86_64-server-7/filelists.xml.gz'", "stderr_lines": ["", "", "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/rhel-x86_64-server-7/filelists.xml.gz'"], "stdout": "Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos,\n              : subscription-manager\nThis system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.", "stdout_lines": ["Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos,", "              : subscription-manager", " **This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite."]}
fatal: [server.example.com]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 2, "changed": true, "cmd": ["yum", "makecache"], "delta": "0:05:21.737050", "end": "2019-06-03 15:05:25.364528", "failed": true, "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2019-06-03 15:00:03.627478", "stderr": "\n\n[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/rhel-x86_64-server-7/filelists.xml.gz'", "stderr_lines": ["", "", "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/7Server/rhel-x86_64-server-7/filelists.xml.gz'"], "stdout": "Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos,\n              : subscription-manager\nThis system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.", "stdout_lines": ["Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos,", "              : subscription-manager","This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite."]}

Running "yum repolist" on node hosts shows something like this:

Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, rhnplugin, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
repo id                                   repo name                                                              status
rhel-7-fast-datapath-rpms/7Server/x86_64  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (RHEL 7 Server) (RPMs)             189
rhel-7-server-ansible-2.4-rpms/x86_64     Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server      23
rhel-7-server-extras-rpms/x86_64          Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server - Extras (RPMs)                       1,105
rhel-7-server-ose-3.10-rpms/x86_64        Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 (RPMs)                          831
rhel-7-server-rpms/7Server/x86_64         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server (RPMs)                               24,234
rhel-x86_64-server-7                      Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7 for 64-bit x86_64)               24,222
rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-7            RHN Tools for RHEL Server (v. 7 for x86_64)                               136
repolist: 50,757

The node host machine thinks it's getting updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.