using files folder for storing files

[Suporter]

when we create a roles folder, there is a folder called files in it, can i use it for storing zip files or whatever i would like to store ..if yes how can i reference that in playbook, should i mention the location or is there an ansible way of referring it

[Kai Stian Olstad]

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbook_pahting.html

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Suporter]

pahting should be changed to pathing  :p and also i dont know how to use it in playbook

[Suporter]

How we should use the files folder created under roles, if i am downloading a file from url and want to save it under the files folder, how can i mention that in playbook, should that be the full path? or is there an ansible way of doing it?

[J Hawkesworth]

I probably wouldn't do that as I want to keep my ansible roles and playbooks in source control.  So I would probably create a downloads folder on my ansible controller in some known location that I could either hard code into my playbooks - something like /usr/share/downloads perhaps or alternatively set the path using a group variable.

[Suporter]

thanks for the reply

On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 9:07:33 PM UTC+5:30, Suporter wrote: