--- - name: install locale packages apt: force_apt_get: true install_recommends: false name: "{{ locale_packages }}" register: apt_status retries: 60 until: apt_status is success or ('Failed to lock apt for exclusive operation' not in apt_status.msg and '/var/lib/dpkg/lock' not in apt_status.msg) - name: generate locale when: init_locale != 'C.UTF-8' locale_gen: name: "{{ init_locale }}" - name: set locale notify: update locale copy: dest: /etc/default/locale content: | LANG={{ init_locale }} LANGUAGE={{ init_locale }} LC_ALL={{ init_locale }} - name: set locale.gen notify: update locale lineinfile: path: /etc/locale.gen regexp: '^(?:# )?({{ init_locale }}.*)$' backrefs: true line: '\1' - name: set timezone notify: restart cron timezone: name: "{{ init_timezone }}" ...