How to copy a file from localhost (Ansible Tower server) to remote host in Ansible playbook?

[Saravanan]

Hi Ansible Experts,

Need to copy a file from Ansible tower server to remote server using copy module. Can you please help to achieve this using copy module or any other module in Ansible?

---
- name: Copy file to remote server
  gather_facts: no
  hosts: 127.0.0.1

  tasks:
    - name: Copy JSON file to remote server
      copy:
        dest: /apps/web/scripts/json
        src: /tmp/report.json
        remote_src: no
        owner: user
        group: group
        mode: 0644
      delegate_to: remote_server
      become_user: awx
      become: no

[Saravanan]

I am getting source not found error while copying a file from Ansible Tower server to remote server. Actually file is available in the local path of Ansible Tower server. Any help is much appreciated.

[Jonathan Lozada De La Matta]

do you have the file in all the nodes?

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[Saravanan]

I have a temporary file created on Ansible Tower and able to send it via email. Additionally I would like to copy this file to remote server on some path. Can you please help me with this requirement?

[Saravanan]

Hi Jon,

The file is exist on Ansible tower server and able to lookup file, attach to email. However, using copy module, unable to copy this file from Ansible Tower server to remote server path.

- hosts: remoteserver
  tasks:
  - name: Ansible copy file to remote server
    copy:
      src: /tmp/somefile.txt
      dest: /opt/remote/server/path

Getting strange error. saying unable to find src file. On the other hand able to lookup file and attach to email.

On Monday, 19 November 2018 16:35:53 UTC-5, Jonathan Lozada De La Matta wrote:

[Saravanan]

Found the solution for copying a file from Ansible Tower server to a remote server when the Play is delegated to Tower server.

---
- name: Copy file to remote server
  gather_facts: no
  hosts: 127.0.0.1

  tasks:

  - set_fact:
      jsonVariable: "{{ lookup('file', '/tmp/myfile.json') }}"
      cacheable: true

  - name: Create empty file on remote server
    file:
      path: "{{ item }}"
      state: touch
      mode: 0750
    delegate_to: remoteServer
    with_items:
      - /opt/json/myfile.json

  - name: Copy file to remote server
    lineinfile:
      dest: /opt/json/myfile.json
      line: "{{ jsonVariable }}"
      insertafter: EOF
    delegate_to: remoteServer