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Slim AZAIZ
Slim AZAIZ

Reputation: 656

How to upload a file to nexus using ansible modules?

Are we able to use URI module of ansible to upload a file to nexus rather than using curl --upload-file as a shell task ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7935

Answers (2)

tomop123
tomop123

Reputation: 11

I've gotten this example from my course. I really don't know from where they got it, but it works. At the same time I really hate Sonatype Nexus useless documentation.

---
- name: Upload JAR file via REST API using Ansible
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    app_name: gradle-java-project-1.0-SNAPSHOT
    nexus_url: "http://XXX.YYY.ZZZ.AAA:8081"
    artifact_name: gradle-java-project 
    artifact_version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT 
    jar_file_path: /home/tpolak/IdeaProjects/java-gradle-app/build/libs/gradle-java-project-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
    nexus_user: admin
    nexus_password: nexus
  tasks:      
    - name: Upload JAR file
      uri:        
        # Notes on Nexus upload artifact URL:
        # 1 - You can add group name in the url ".../com/my/group/{{ artifact_name }}..."
        # 2 - The file name (my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar) must match the url path of (.../com/my-app/1.0-SNAPSHOT/my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar), otherwise it won't work
        # 3 - You can only upload file with SNAPSHOT in the version into the maven-snapshots repo, so naming matters
        url: "{{ nexus_url }}/repository/maven-snapshots/com/my/{{ artifact_name }}/{{ artifact_version }}/{{ artifact_name }}-{{ artifact_version }}.jar"
        
        method: PUT
        src: "{{ jar_file_path }}"
        user: "{{ nexus_user }}"
        password: "{{ nexus_password }}"
        force_basic_auth: yes
        
        # With default "raw" body_format request form is too large, and causes 500 server error on Nexus (Form is larger than max length 200000), So we are setting it to 'json'
        body_format: json
        status_code: 201
      register: response

    - name: Print response
      debug:
        var: response

Upvotes: 1

zigarn
zigarn

Reputation: 11605

Since ansible 2.7, uri module has a src parameter that should do the trick.

So something like this as a task (to adapt/complete with the behavior of the Nexus API):

- name: Push jar to nexus
  uri:
    url: "{{ nexus_url }}/nexus/content/repositories/{{ path_repository }}/{{ artifact_name }}"
    method: PUT
    src: "{{ local_file_path }}"
    user: "{{ user }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    force_basic_auth: yes
    #headers:
    #  Content-Type: application/octet-stream  # To avoid automatic 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    status_code:
      - 201

Upvotes: 1

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