copy

Warning, this is a deprecated role

It has been superseded by debops.resources.

Simple role to copy files from the Ansible controller to target systems.

This role was written to be able to specify files to copy via inventory variables. It is based on Ansible’s copy module. If the synchronize module seems more suitable checkout the role ypid.synchronize.

Features

Ensures that the target parent directory exists.
Allows to delete files defined as state: 'absent'.

Installation

This role requires at least Ansible v1.9.0. To install it, run:

ansible-galaxy install ypid.copy

To install via git, run either:

git clone https://github.com/ypid/ansible-copy.git ypid.copy
git submodule add https://github.com/ypid/ansible-copy.git ypid.copy

Role variables

List of default variables available in the inventory:

---

## Checkout the documentation for the copy module.

# copy_files_list:
#   - src: '/path/to/source/file'
#     dest: '/path/to/target/file'
#     create_parent_dirs: no
#     # state: 'absent'

## "Global" files to copy
copy_files_list: []

## "Host group" files to copy
copy_files_group_list: []

## "Host" files to copy
copy_files_host_list: []

## Testing, not yet working:
## Ignore errors during copy job.
# copy_ignore_errors: False

List of internal variables used by the role: