diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 07aa5c34..f292df97 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ target/
 
 # virtualenv
 venv/
+.venv/
 ENV/
 
 # molecule
@@ -119,5 +120,6 @@ tmp.md
 # Ansible collection files
 kubernetes_sigs-kubespray*tar.gz
 ansible_collections
+ansible/playbooks/collections
 
 kustomize/**/all.yaml
diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/ansible.cfg b/ansible/playbooks/ansible.cfg
index 8f63e44c..b0fb054e 100644
--- a/ansible/playbooks/ansible.cfg
+++ b/ansible/playbooks/ansible.cfg
@@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ gathering = smart
 fact_caching = jsonfile
 fact_caching_connection = /tmp
 fact_caching_timeout = 86400
-stdout_callback = default
+# Use the YAML callback plugin because it's easier to read the errors
+stdout_callback = YAML
+# Use the stdout_callback when running ad-hoc commands.
+bin_ansible_callbacks = True
 display_skipped_hosts = no
 callbacks_enabled = profile_tasks
 deprecation_warnings = False
 inventory_ignore_extensions = ~, .orig, .bak, .ini, .cfg, .retry, .pyc, .pyo, .creds, .gpg, .example
 enable_plugins = host_list, script, auto, yaml, ini, toml
+# install and use local collections instead of global
+collections_paths = ./collections/ansible_collections
 
 [inventory]
 ignore_patterns = artifacts, credentials