On Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:54:21 PM UTC-8, Jason Sheedy wrote: > > Hi guys, > I'm quite new to Ansible and would like to perform the following in an > idempotent fashion. I would basically like to minimise the number of > downloads I need to perform from the web for certain file assets, so my > plan is to download them once to an asset server and then retrieve them > from there for all the target hosts in our cluster. > > As far as I know the flow would go something like this. > > # does file exist on target host > # if yes exit > # if no retrieve from asset server > # does file exist on asset server > # if not download from web to asset server > # copy file from asset server to target host > > Are there any modules I could use to do this or are there any other > recommendations on best practices for this scenario? > > the copy module will also check if the file exists on the target server and not copy it if it is already there... CAVEAT, if you intend to modify the file on the target server then it will be replaced with the original if any of these modules detect that it is different. (i.e it will checksum the two files and only if they don't match will it copy the source over.
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