nicholas $
nicholas $ ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i inventory.txt

PLAY [Network Getting Started First Playbook] **************************************************************************************

TASK [Get config for Ubuntu devices] ***********************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: See the timeout setting options in the Network Debug and Troubleshooting Guide.
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************
127.0.0.1                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

nicholas $
nicholas $ cat playbook.yml
---

- name: Network Getting Started First Playbook
  connection: network_cli
  gather_facts: false
  hosts: all
  tasks:

    - name: Get config for Ubuntu devices
      vyos_facts:
        gather_subset: all

    - name: Display the config
      debug:
        msg: "The hostname is {{ ansible_net_hostname }} and the OS is {{ ansible_net_version }}"

nicholas $
nicholas $ cat inventory.txt

127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local


nicholas $
nicholas $ ansible-playbook -vvv playbook.yml -i inventory.txt
ansible-playbook 2.9.6
  config file = /home/nicholas/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/nicholas/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 3.8.2 (default, Jul 16 2020, 14:00:26) [GCC 9.3.0]
Using /home/nicholas/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
host_list declined parsing /home/nicholas/ansible/inventory.txt as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/nicholas/ansible/inventory.txt as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /home/nicholas/ansible/inventory.txt as it did not pass its verify_file() method
yaml declined parsing /home/nicholas/ansible/inventory.txt as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /home/nicholas/ansible/inventory.txt inventory source with ini plugin

PLAYBOOK: playbook.yml *************************************************************************************************************
1 plays in playbook.yml

PLAY [Network Getting Started First Playbook] **************************************************************************************
META: ran handlers

TASK [Get config for Ubuntu devices] ***********************************************************************************************
task path: /home/nicholas/ansible/playbook.yml:9
<127.0.0.1> using connection plugin network_cli (was local)
The full traceback is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line 146, in run
    res = self._execute()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line 645, in _execute
    result = self._handler.run(task_vars=variables)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/action/vyos.py", line 85, in run
    out = conn.get_prompt()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/module_utils/connection.py", line 185, in __rpc__
    raise ConnectionError(to_text(msg, errors='surrogate_then_replace'), code=code)
ansible.module_utils.connection.ConnectionError: command timeout triggered, timeout value is 10 secs.
See the timeout setting options in the Network Debug and Troubleshooting Guide.
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {
    "msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.",
    "stdout": ""
}

PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************************************************
127.0.0.1                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

nicholas $
nicholas $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal
nicholas $
nicholas $ ls
ansible.cfg  ansible.cfg.orig  first_playbook.yml  inventory.txt  playbook.yml
nicholas $