To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. The customer ran `openstack overcloud external-upgrade run --skip-tags "ceph_ansible_remote_tmp" --stack neomah01-overcloud --tags ceph,facts 2>&1`,
   and although the Ansible tasks seemed to complete successfully, but the environment was not upgraded to Ceph Storage 5.

official guide followed {}

Expected behavior

• The previous command should start the adoption of ceph-adm but from ansible logs we see nothing happen on external:

• PLAY [Render all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud] ***********************
  2025-07-10 16:27:16.233738 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000021 |       TASK | Render all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.700350 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000021 |         OK | Render all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-0 -> localhost
  [WARNING]: ('neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-0 -> localhost', '525400fa-
  bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000021') missing from statsPLAY [Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud] **************************
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.734168 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |       TASK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.793388 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |         OK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-0
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.797521 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |     TIMING | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-0 | 0:00:05.028089 | 0.06s
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.830603 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |         OK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-1
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.833399 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |     TIMING | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-1 | 0:00:05.063972 | 0.08s
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.867140 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |         OK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-2
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.869964 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |     TIMING | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-2 | 0:00:05.100537 | 0.09s
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.902835 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |         OK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-controller-0
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.905594 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |     TIMING | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-controller-0 | 0:00:05.136167 | 0.08s
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.907789 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |         OK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-controller-1
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.908659 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |     TIMING | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-controller-1 | 0:00:05.139264 | 0.05s
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.930845 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |         OK | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-controller-2
  2025-07-10 16:27:18.931714 | 525400fa-bc5a-a783-eed8-000000000024 |     TIMING | Set all_nodes data as group_vars for overcloud | neomah01-overcloud-controller-2 | 0:00:05.162320 | 0.04sPLAY [External upgrade step 0] *************************************************PLAY [External upgrade step 1] *************************************************PLAY [External upgrade step 2] *************************************************PLAY [External deploy step 1] **************************************************PLAY [External deploy step 2] **************************************************PLAY [External deploy step 3] **************************************************PLAY [External deploy step 4] **************************************************PLAY [External deploy step 5] **************************************************PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
  neomah01-overcloud-controller-0 : ok=6    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  neomah01-overcloud-controller-1 : ok=6    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  neomah01-overcloud-controller-2 : ok=6    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-0 : ok=7    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-1 : ok=6    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  neomah01-overcloud-hci-compute-2 : ok=6    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  undercloud                 : ok=5    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=2
  2025-07-10 16:27:19.271568 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Summary Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2025-07-10 16:27:19.272151 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Total Tasks: 7          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  2025-07-10 16:27:19.272690 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elapsed Time: 0:00:05.503300 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Device Info (please complete the following information):

• [redhat-release] Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.4 (Ootpa)
  [rhosp-release] Red Hat OpenStack Platform release 17.1.4 (Wallaby)

Bug impact

• Ceph upgrade is stuck

Known workaround

• No workaround

Additional context

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