Creating directory using module file (state=directory).

[Wojciech Korzenny]

Hi,

I have following playbook:

- hosts: group1
  user: ansible_user
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Create backup directory
    file: path={{backup_app_logs_dir}} state=directory

The problem is that group1 consists of more than 1 hosts. So create-directory action is executed on all of boxes the same time. I suspect that module check first if directory exists. If so, skip creating, otherwise perform mkdir. When more than 1 host get information "Perfrom mkdir", they do it. First of them makes directory successfully, but next one fails because the directory shouldn't be there according to verficiation:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ansible-tmp-1429781323.08-188650158471467/file", line 1993, in ?
    main()
  File "/tmp/ansible-tmp-1429781323.08-188650158471467/file", line 278, in main
    os.mkdir(curpath)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/path/to/backup/directory'

I can of course skip this error and go forward by setting ignore_errors to True (as I described above - my directory is created) but when I do the same action on multile host_groups, first errors stops the task so next groups are not handled at all.

Do you see any easy solution not to split it into two different playbooks?

Regards,
W.

[Brian Coca]

I'm guessing that the directory is in a shared drive across the hosts?
if so I would suggest adding run_once: True to your play.

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Brian Coca