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Automation is often a lot of work, even just installing curl
Ubuntu is a social creature and does not like to be automated as much as you might expect. Very often your automation gets stuck because all of a sudden the folks at Canonical decided that they prefer human interaction. Often Ansible just hangs! For automatically installing curl on Ubuntu, You need to put the following:
sudo UCF_FORCE_CONFOLD=1 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confold” -qq -y install curl
Even if you add -y to your apt command it still asks you whether it should restart services
┌───────────────────────────────┤ Configuring libssl1.1:amd64 ├────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ There are services installed on your system which need to be restarted when certain │ │ libraries, such as libpam, libc, and libssl, are upgraded. Since these restarts may cause │ │ interruptions of service for the system, you will normally be prompted on each upgrade for │ │ the list of services you wish to restart. You can choose this option to avoid being │ │ prompted; instead, all necessary restarts will be done for you automatically so you can │ │ avoid being asked questions on each library upgrade. │ │ │ │ Restart services during package upgrades without asking? │ │ │ │ │ │ │
`apt-get install -y -qq ansible` This does not guarantee a non-interactive run. If you want a non-interactive run, you must use all the necessary parameters. For example: UCF_FORCE_CONFOLD=1 DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confdef” -o Dpkg::Options::=”–force-confold” -qq -y install ansible See the dpkg and ucf documentation to set the default behavior as you actually want it.
Ansible also hangs while installing from a Git repo to a new server / container.