Ansible 2.4 Playbook Fails When Run By Ansible 2.7 Or 2.8

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • A playbook using the file module created for use with Ansible 2.4 now fails when run by Ansible 2.7 or 2.8 with RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Ansible 2.7 or 2.8

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