Fetch from URL to local machine and then copy to remote

[Martin Jöhren]

Hi,

I am looking for a way to download a file to the local machine where ansible was started and then copy that file to the remote server. Background: due to security issues we cannot directly download the file from our nexus on the remote server so we need to download it first to the local machine and the use that file in ansible. Currently we start a small shell script before using ansible for this deployment but this is not very nice ;) Is there something which can be used currently or do we have to write an own module?

Thanks,

Martin

[Romeo Theriault]

Sounds like you can use the 'get_url' module with 'delegate_to:
127.0.0.1' to download the file locally, then use the 'copy' module to
copy it to the remote host.

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[Jan-Piet Mens]

> I am looking for a way to download a file to the local machine where
> ansible was started and then copy that file to the remote server.

action: get_url ...
action: copy ...

-JP

[Serge van Ginderachter]

​That's exactly what we do. Though depending on which url you use to download from nexus, you might want to choose the uri module to do the download. ​The latter one allows you to register the exact filename, when you use Nexus' rest api, which does a redirect to the exact file location.

Serge

[Martin Jöhren]

thx guys. will try that

[Martin Jöhren]

i finally used something like that:

  - name: download locally

    local_action: get_url dest

works fine.

Thanks to all