---
- name: Run a local task
hosts: 127.0.0.1
connection: local
tasks:
- name: loop the loop
uri:
url: http://www.someurl.example.com/status.html
return_content: yes
register: foo
until: foo.content.find("monkeys") != -1
delay: 1
retries: 5
The task can be whatever you want: I used uri but it’s more usually shell or something like that. The main thing is that you need to use register so you’ll have something to check in the until: condition.