ansible-uncompress

Uncompress module for ansible. Lets you download an uncompress .gz and .bz2 files which currently isn't possible with the unarchive built-in module. https://galaxy.ansible.com/compscidr/uncompress

Motivated by the push-back against .gz .bz2 not being supported for compressed files: https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/3241#issuecomment-240991265

and the existance of this project: https://github.com/vadikgo/uncompress.

Updating the existing project to support installation via a meta/requirements.yml file and then submitting to ansible galaxy so that it can be found and installed easily.

installation via galaxy:

ansible-galaxy install compscidr.uncompress

installation via galaxy / requirements

Add the following to requirements.yml

roles:
- name: compscidr.uncompress

Then run ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

installation via git / requirements

Add the following to your requirements.yml file:

# from github
- src: https://github.com/compscidr/ansible-uncompress
  name: compscidr.uncompress

Then run ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

example use:

---
- name: Install some gz file:
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - compscidr.uncompress
  tasks:
  - name: install cheat # https://github.com/cheat/cheat/blob/master/INSTALLING.md
    tags: cheat
    become: true
    uncompress:
      copy: no
      src: https://github.com/cheat/cheat/releases/download/4.3.1/cheat-linux-amd64.gz
      dest: /usr/local/bin/cheat
      mode: '755'