Set the environment variable ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 on local machine to keep files that Ansible copied to the remote host, so that you can execute them directly on the remote host yourself and thus troubleshoot them better: on local machine /Control Machine/: $ export ANSIBLE_KEEP_REMOTE_FILES=1 $ ansible-playbook ... on remote host /Managed Node/: $ cd ~/.ansible/tmp/ $ ...