> Ansible doesn't install a runtime on the target machine > it temporarily copies over the scripts that do the work So yeah, it does copy its "runtime". It can

> Ansible doesn't install a runtime on the target machine > it temporarily copies over the scripts that do the work So yeah, it does copy its "runtime". It cannot work purely by running commands over SSH. It needs to copy "its agent" to target, and worse, it does this every time you run it.