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Matt Saddington
Matt Saddington

Reputation: 151

Editing multiple destination files with ansible?

I am currently trying to update all the wp-config.php files on multiple servers. This below should work but it wont allow me to use regexp for the destination.

Does anyone know an alternate way to do this?

---
- hosts: blah.blah.net
  user: blah
  sudo: true
  tasks:
  - name: add a new string before the match
    lineinfile: dest='\/home\/.*\/public_html\/wp-config.php'
                regexp='^\/\*\* MySQL database password \*\/'
                insertbefore='^\/\*\* MySQL database password \*\/'
                line='define("DISALLOW_FILE_MODS", true);'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2370

Answers (1)

user2991764
user2991764

Reputation:

As you've already experienced, a regular expression won't work there. What I recommend is to use with_items like this:

- name: add a new string before the match
  lineinfile: dest=/home/{{ item }}/public_html/wp-config.php 
              regexp=' ... '
  with_items:
   - usera
   - userb
   - userc

You can obtain a list of items from a file (with_lines: cat filename) or by obtaining them remotely (i.e. from the managed nodes) with, say, a shell action and a register: variable.

Upvotes: 5

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