I've been having trouble with the copy module, using with_items and a vault. I pulled the devel version of ansible so the version should be 1.7.2 + changes added since then.
I put the whole thing in a public bitbucket repository. You can retrieve it with this: git clone [email protected]:tekberg/ansible-foo.git I distilled the problem down to this small set of files. The larger case has more things (keys, certs, CSR) in the vault. I use with_items to iterate through them and copy the data to where the keys, certs, CSR belong in Unbuntu. The instructions on how to run it are included in foo.yml - your host may vary. The main part is using the copy module: tasks: - name: install private key, if one exists copy: dest: "{{ item[1] }}" content: "{{ item[0] }}" when: item[1] with_items: - ("{{PRIVATE_KEY}}", "{{PRIVATE_KEY_FILE}}") My larger case has more in with_items. The things in caps are in the vault. I had to do the "{{PRIVATE_KEY}}" because without the punctuation item[0] was 'PRIVATE_KEY'. Here is a snippet of the ansible output: failed: [apps2] => (item=(PRIVATE_KEY, PRIVATE_KEY_FILE)) => {"failed": true, "item": "(PRIVATE_KEY, PRIVATE_KEY_FILE)", "md5sum": "84c40473414caf2ed4a7b1283e48bbf4"} With the extra "{{...}}" syntax it still fails, but item looks better: failed: [apps2] => (item=("dfihahf adkfhalkdfjhalkdghalghjalkjd 49147174*&^(^&((& ", "/etc/ssl/private/foo.key")) => {"failed": true, "item": "(\"dfihahf\nadkfhalkdfjhalkdghalghjalkjd\n49147174*&^(^&((&\n\", \"/etc/ssl/private/foo.key\")", "md5sum": "84c40473414caf2ed4a7b1283e48bbf4"} You can see item[0] is a 3 line value and item[1] is the a file name. The error I get is: msg: Destination directory does not exist I hacked the ansible source to display more for this error and this is the result: msg: TWE Destination directory does not exist dest=", len(dest)=1 So it is trying to deal with a file name consisting of a single double quote. I have tried everything I could think of but nothing works. Do you have an idea on what I am doing wrong? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f4f3c656-5e17-43ad-b8c5-aecda5273f39%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
