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Reputation: 30025

Is it possible to include file content in a playbook?

I need to create or overwrite files on remote hosts. The modules lineinfile or blockinfile are useful when updating files, but not to create ones from scratch or completely overwrite existing ones.

The obvious solution is to use copy but I would like to have as much as possible a standalone playbook, without files on the side. Is it possible to include in a playbook the content of the file to create?

Maybe something along the lines of having a variable with the content of the file which can be used as the src=parameter for copy (I tried this but it does not work as src expects a local file)

Upvotes: 23

Views: 29716

Answers (1)

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68289

Copy with content:

  tasks:
    - copy:
        content: |
                 This is some
                 not too complex
                 cotent for a file
        dest: content.txt

But as per Ansible doc:

This is for simple values, for anything complex or with formatting please switch to the template module.

Upvotes: 57

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