Why does a Playbook Connect through SSH when Delegate_to is set to localhost in Ansible?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • An SSH connection is established or attempted when delegating to localhost rather than using the local connection plugin.

Environment

  • Ansible Engine

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