How to copy files in remote system using Ansible

Question

Hi Guys,

I have some files in my local system. I want to copy these files into all remote systems. How can I do that in Ansible?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to use the copy module in your Ansible command. It allows you to copy files to a remote node. You can use the below command.

[root@localhost ~]# ansible all -m copy -a "src=home.html dest=/var/www/html/"
192.168.0.179 | CHANGED => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"
    },
    "changed": true,
    "checksum": "6b788f3f7b8c05352bccc93a67cc13d92f9a7618",
    "dest": "/var/www/html/home.html",
    "gid": 0,
    "group": "root",
    "md5sum": "4900bfba2c30719632632fc4186083e0",
    "mode": "0644",
    "owner": "root",
    "secontext": "system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0",
    "size": 19,
    "src": "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1596045930.753713-14383-112197138626631/source",
    "state": "file",
    "uid": 0
}