Copy file with Ansible remote provisioner

[David González Martínez]

I'm trying to work with Ansible remote provisioner to adapt some playbooks to use with virtual machines created with KVM builder. Almost everything works well, but I need to copy some files from a local folder to the remote virtual machine being generated. I know that scp doesn't work with Ansible provisioner. What's the right way to make the copy module work without scp? Shouldn't sftp work instead by default? The playbook works well if I use it out of Packer.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

packer does have a native file provisioner, have you used it?

https://www.packer.io/docs/provisioners/file.html

Alvaro

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:30 AM, David González Martínez <gonzo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to work with Ansible remote provisioner to adapt some playbooks to use with virtual machines created with KVM builder. Almost everything works well, but I need to copy some files from a local folder to the remote virtual machine being generated. I know that scp doesn't work with Ansible provisioner. What's the right way to make the copy module work without scp? Shouldn't sftp work instead by default? The playbook works well if I use it out of Packer.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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[David González Martínez]

Yes, I know about the file provisioner, but I want to do all the steps in an Ansible Playbook.

There is an option for sftp server in Ansible provisioner, but I can't find any infomation about the way to use it in Ansible.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello,

Perhaps you can grab the information in other way of the server and ssh.

As for a pure ansible way, maybe ansible mailing list can help better.

Avaro,

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[David González Martínez]

It's working now. I'm using CentOS 6 and after changing the parameter sftp_command the problem is solved:

"sftp_command":"/usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server -e"

The solution was already published in this thread.