Ansible copy or delete multiple files in parallel

[anushake...@gmail.com]

Hi Team,

Can we copy or delete files in parallel instead of sequence for different locations when using with_items. 

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

    - name: Copying files

      copy: src={{ item.src }} dest={{ item.dest }}

      with_items:

        - { src: '/tmp/abc.war', dest: '/tmp/abc' }

        - { src: '/tmp/def.war', dest: '/tmp/def' }

        - { src: '/tmp/xyz.war', dest: '/tmp/xyz' }

     

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Friday, 23 November 2018 19:15:35 CET anushake...@gmail.com wrote:
> Can we copy or delete files in parallel instead of sequence for different
> locations when using with_items.

Check out async


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Kai Stian Olstad

[anushake...@gmail.com]

Hi Olstad,

I tried with async but I am getting the below error. Could you please help.

Playbook.yml

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

    - name: Copying files

      copy: src={{ item.src }} dest={{ item.dest }}

      with_items:

        - { src: '/tmp/abc.war', dest: '/tmp/abc' }

        - { src: '/tmp/def.war', dest: '/tmp/def' }

        - { src: '/tmp/xyz.war', dest: '/tmp/xyz' }

      async: 60

      poll: 0

Error:

failed: (item={u'dest': u'/tmp/hr', u'src': u'/tmp/abc/abc.war'}) => {"item": {"dest": "/tmp/abc", "src": "/tmp/abc/abc.war"}, "msg": "async is not supported for this task."}

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Monday, 26 November 2018 17:25:02 CET anushake...@gmail.com wrote:
> I tried with async but I am getting the below error. Could you please help.
>
> Playbook.yml
>
> ---
> - hosts: all
> tasks:
> - name: Copying files
> copy: src={{ item.src }} dest={{ item.dest }}
> with_items:
> - { src: '/tmp/abc.war', dest: '/tmp/abc' }
> - { src: '/tmp/def.war', dest: '/tmp/def' }
> - { src: '/tmp/xyz.war', dest: '/tmp/xyz' }
> async: 60
> poll: 0
>
> Error:
>
> failed: (item={u'dest': u'/tmp/hr', u'src': u'/tmp/abc/abc.war'}) =>
> {"item": {"dest": "/tmp/abc", "src": "/tmp/abc/abc.war"}, "msg": "async is
> not supported for this task."}

It seams that the copy module doesn't support async so you're out of luck.
If you have passwordless login to you host, you could use command module with async.


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Kai Stian Olstad