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Show activity on this post. I'm using the ec2 module with ansible-playbook I want to set a variable to the contents of a file. Here's how I'm currently doing it. Var with the filename. shell task to cat the file. use the result of the cat to pass to the ec2 module. Example contents of my playbook.

07.10.2020 · ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbook.yaml Creating a File With Content If you want to create a new file with content, you can first use the method above to create an empty file, and then use the blockinfile or lineinfile module to insert content. A quicker way is …

Creating a new file with content ... One way is to create an empty file using the above method and then using the blockinfile or lineinfile module ...

Creating an Empty File · hosts : Defines on which remote hosts from your Ansible inventory file you want to execute the task. · tasks : Announces ...

12.11.2021 · Synopsis This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller’s file system. Parameters Notes Note if read in variable context, the file can be interpreted as YAML if the content is valid to the parser. this lookup does not understand ‘globing’, use the fileglob lookup instead. Examples

Dec 29, 2021 · Create File With Content using Ansible. To create an empty file we can use the Ansible’s file module (or win_file ): - name: "Ansible | Creating an empty file" file: path: "< filePath >" state: touch. To create a file with a content, use the Ansible’s copy module (or win_copy ): - name: "Ansible | Creating a file with content" copy: dest: "< filePath >" content: | < line1 > < line2 >.

You can use lookups in Ansible in order to get the contents of a file, e.g. user_data: "{{ lookup('file', user_data_file) }}" Caveat: This lookup will work ...

You can use lookups in Ansible in order to get the contents of a file, e.g. user_data: " { { lookup ('file', user_data_file) }}" Caveat: This lookup will work with local files, not remote files. Here's a complete example from the docs:

Oct 07, 2020 · In the file, we used: copy: Engages Ansible’s copy module. dest: Defines the path for your new file. content: This parameter will add line 01 and line 02 as the content of the new file. Creating Multiple Files. You can create multiple files by using a single task in an Ansible playbook. Use the following configuration to create multiple files:

21.12.2021 · Use the ansible.builtin.fetch module to copy files from remote locations to the local box. If you need variable interpolation in copied files, use the ansible.builtin.template module. Using a variable in the content field will result in unpredictable output. For Windows targets, use the ansible.windows.win_copy module instead. Note

23.10.2020 · Ansible file module is used to deal with the files, directories, and symlinks. You can create or remove files, symlinks or directories on the remote hosts using the Ansible file module. It is also used to change the file ownership, group and permissions. Ansible file module performs all tasks on the remote hosts.

01.12.2020 · Synopsis ¶. This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller’s file system.

Copy with content: tasks: - copy: content: | This is some not too complex cotent for a file dest: content.txt. But as per Ansible doc:.

Dec 01, 2020 · file - read file contents You are reading an unmaintained version of the Ansible documentation. Unmaintained Ansible versions can contain unfixed security vulnerabilities (CVE).

For a file on a remote host, you can use the 'slurp' module to put the content into a register, but then you must base64 decode the content. - ...

05.07.2016 · And create a playbook: - hosts: all tasks: - name: Ansible remove files shell: " { { find }} { { COGNOS_HOME }} -xdev -mindepth 1 -delete". This will delete all files and directories in the COGNOS_HOME variable directory/filesystem. The "-mindepth 1" option makes sure that the current directory will not be touched.

14.09.2021 · Simply put, Ansible file lookup helps to read the file content and load or display within the Ansible playbook. with Ansible file lookup you can read a file and assign to a variable for further processing.

In Ansible there are multiple methods to create new empty files. You can also set different permissions, different group permissions, set the owner of the file, create files with content in them etc. Let us go through some ways in which it can be done. Creating an empty file in Ansible. You can Create an empty file using the file module.

One practical module in Ansible is the file module. This module is responsible for performing tasks such as creating files and directories, deleting files and ...

Simply put, Ansible file lookup helps to read the file content and load or display within the Ansible playbook. with Ansible file lookup you ...

21.12.2021 · This module is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short module name file even without specifying the collections: keyword. However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.

file – read file contents . Note. This lookup plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you ...

Nov 12, 2021 · Synopsis This lookup returns the contents from a file on the Ansible controller’s file system. Parameters Notes Note if read in variable context, the file can be interpreted as YAML if the content is valid to the parser. this lookup does not understand ‘globing’, use the fileglob lookup instead. Examples