Unable to run kubectl from ansible

I found a couple of workarounds.
One was to use the k8s_facts module

- name: Ensure running application  k8s_facts:    namespace: sample    kind: Pod    label_selectors:      - app=sample-v1-app  register: pod_list  until: pod_list.resources[0].status.phase == 'Running'  delay: 10  retries: 3

Its simple and gets the works done.

The second workaround was to use the raw module instead of shell or command

- name: Get running status  raw: kubectl get deploy sample-v1-deployment -o json -n sample | jq -r '.status.conditions[] | select(.reason == "MinimumReplicasAvailable") | .status'

I'm not sure about using raw. It looks like a hammer for a simple task.
But reading about the module makes me think this problem is related with the syntax (quotes, double quotes, |) more than the command it self.

Executes a low-down and dirty SSH command, not going through the module subsystem. This is useful and should only be done in a few cases. A common case is installing python on a system without python installed by default. Another is speaking to any devices such as routers that do not have any Python installed.

Looks like you can connect to your kube-apiserver on the master from a shell, but not from ansible. The error message indicates differences in the kubeconfig.

You can see the kube-apiserver endpoint configured on your ~/.kube/config like this:

$ kubectl config view --minify -o jsonpath='{.clusters[].cluster.server}'

It's typically something like this: https://<servername>:6443. You can try running the command from ansible to see if you get the same kube-apiserver.

Another thing is you can try is to print the value of the KUBECONFIG env variable from ansible to see if it's set to something different from ~/.kube/config

Hope it helps!