When trying to manage packages with yum module via Ansible, on fresh installed RHEL / Centos Linux systems, you may face following error:

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msg: No Package matching ‘sendmail-cf’ found available, installed or updated
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This is caused by missing package yum-utils.

It can be installed with Ansible raw module (also used for installing python-simplejson for Ansible):

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ansible 1.2.3.4 -m raw -a “yum -y install yum-utils” –user=userx –sudo
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