--- - name: Run a local task hosts: 127.0.0.1 connection: local tasks: - name: loop the loop uri: url: http://www.someurl.example.com/status.html return_content: yes register: foo until: foo.content.find("monkeys") != -1 delay: 1 retries: 5
The task can be whatever you want: I used uri but it’s more usually shell or something like that. The main thing is that you need to use register so you’ll have something to check in the until: condition.