Keeping directory content in sync

[John Petro]

I am working on a role for work, and it needs to keep the source directory ( that lives on the ansible controlnode ), and the destination ( lives on teh remote ) in sync. I know that the copy module can keep the changes/additions in sync.  I am not so much worried about that part.  Where I am getting stuck, is how to handle if we delete a file at the source, and want that delete carried forward to the remote.

Is there a good way to do that, other than stat the files, loop through the variable, and delete anything that doesn't exist?

Any advice you have here would be much appreciated.

--John

[Rilindo Foster]

Hi John,

Is synchronize an option?

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/synchronize_module.html#synchronize-module

- Rilindo

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