Ansible Tower Copy Module can't find file on Ansible Controller

[tntda...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Hoping to get some feedback and help here as I am lost on this one...

Issue:

When running the below code through Tower:

- name: "Copy cert file to target host"
become: yes
copy:
src: "/tmp/my.jks"
dest: "{{ mule_home }}/certs/"
owner: serviceaccountuser
group: serviceaccountgroup

I get the following error:

"msg": "Could not find or access '/tmp/apiint_medica_com.jks' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"

When I run the same task on the same tower execution node via the CLI it works no problem. 

I've tried using delegate_to as well to ensure force find of the file on the specific node in question and still no luck. 

I also used the find module, and the find module can find the file with no problems. 

I am at a loss of what the problem here his when the same code works on the CLI but fails when ran through Tower.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Tom

[John Westcott]

Tower runs Ansible through bubble wrap which is like a chroot jail.

The /tmp available in the bubble wrap environment may not be the same /tmp on the actual Tower server.

If you need a directory exposed to the bubble wrap container look in settings => jobs => path to expose to isolated jobs.

-John

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[tntda...@gmail.com]

Many thanks John. That is great to know. Always learning something new :) I changed the path of the download from /tmp to /opt and it worked like a charm. Will keep the paths to expose in mind for the future!

Tom