Why Ansible Jobs Are Stuck At The Task With Archive Module And The Archive File Grows Exponentially Consuming All the Available Disk Space ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

With a playbook using Archive module, the playbook run stucks at the task and the archive file grows exponentially consuming all the available disk space.

Environment

Ansible Engine > 2.9.9
Ansible Tower

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