When creating directory with Ansible it doesnt appear - amazon-web-services

Question

I have this simple ansible flow: I want to create a directory on the host:
- name: Create rails app dir
file: path=/etc/rails-app state=directory mode=0755
register: rails_app_dir
And these are the logs when I run the playbook:
TASK [instance_deploy_app : Create rails app dir] *************************************************************************************************
task path: /etc/ansible/roles/instance_deploy_app/tasks/main.yml:39
<IPv4 of host> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<IPv4 of host> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~root && sleep 0'
<IPv4 of host> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp `"&& mkdir "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297="` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297 `" ) && sleep 0'
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/files/file.py
<IPv4 of host> PUT /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-25617Cg_rWo/tmpTPHs3p TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297/AnsiballZ_file.py
<IPv4 of host> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297/AnsiballZ_file.py && sleep 0'
<IPv4 of host> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297/AnsiballZ_file.py && sleep 0'
<IPv4 of host> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'rm -f -r /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1645566978.53-25820-207749605236297/ > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
ok: [IPv4 of host] => {
"changed": false,
"diff": {
"after": {
"path": "/etc/rails-app"
},
"before": {
"path": "/etc/rails-app"
}
},
"gid": 0,
"group": "root",
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"_diff_peek": null,
"_original_basename": null,
"access_time": null,
"access_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
"attributes": null,
"backup": null,
"content": null,
"delimiter": null,
"directory_mode": null,
"follow": true,
"force": false,
"group": null,
"mode": "0755",
"modification_time": null,
"modification_time_format": "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S",
"owner": null,
"path": "/etc/rails-app",
"recurse": false,
"regexp": null,
"remote_src": null,
"selevel": null,
"serole": null,
"setype": null,
"seuser": null,
"src": null,
"state": "directory",
"unsafe_writes": null
}
},
"mode": "0755",
"owner": "root",
"path": "/etc/rails-app",
"size": 41,
"state": "directory",
"uid": 0
}
Read vars_file 'roles/instance_deploy_app/vars/instance_vars.yml'
Read vars_file 'roles/instance_deploy_app/vars/aws_cred.yml'
According to the logs, the directory should be there but when I try to access /etc/rails-app/ it is not there. I currently have 3 users in the AWS EC2 instance: ec2-user, root and user1 and I tried to check in all of them but the directory doesnt appear.
Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

The reason why it was not creating the folder, as β.εηοιτ.βε suggested, is because in the playbook I had connection: local so it was "never connecting to my EC2 and always acting on my controller". Once I removed that, it worked.