Ansible series (9) Copy Module

Ansible series (9) Copy Module
Copy Module

The role of the copy module in ansible is to copy the files on the ansible Execution Machine to a remote node.
The opposite operation of the fetch module.

Common module Parameters

Parameter Name	Required?	Default Value	Option	Description
Src	No			The absolute path is used to locate the files on the machine where ansible runs. If a folder is copied, the folder will be copied as a whole. If the end is "/", only the contents in the folder will be taken into consideration. Everything feels like rsync
Content	No			It is used to replace src and copy the content of a specified file to a remote file.
Dest	Yes			Used to locate files on a remote node. An absolute path is required. If src points to a folder, this parameter must also point to a folder.
Backup	No	No	Yes/no	Back up the original file on the remote node before copying it. In case of any exceptions, the original file can be used.
Directory_mode	No			This parameter can only be used to copy folders. After this setting, new files in the folder will be copied. Old Ones won't be copied.
Follow	No	No	Yes/no	If a link exists in the copied folder, the link will be copied.
Force	No	Yes	Yes/no	The default value is yes, which overwrites files with different remote content (the file name may be the same ). If no, the file will not be copied. If this file is available remotely
Group	No			Sets the permission for a group to copy files to a remote node.
Mode	No			Equivalent to chmod, the parameter can be "u + rwx or u = rw, g = r, o = r"
Owner	No			Sets the permission for a user to copy files to a remote node.

Case

# Set/srv/myfiles/foo. copy the conf file to the remote node/etc/foo. conf, whose owner is foo, whose group is foo, and whose permission is 0644-copy: src =/srv/myfiles/foo. conf dest =/etc/foo. conf owner = foo group = foo mode = 0644 # the same as in the preceding case, the difference is just permission writing-copy: src =/srv/myfiles/foo. conf dest =/etc/foo. conf owner = foo group = foo mode = "u = rw, g = r, o = r" # Write another permission-copy: src =/srv/myfiles/foo. conf dest =/etc/foo. conf owner = foo group = foo mode = "u + rw, g-wx, o-rwx" # copy/mine/ntp. conf to remote section And back up/etc/ntp. conf on the remote node. -Copy: src =/mine/ntp. conf dest =/etc/ntp. conf owner = root group = root mode = 644 backup = yes

Common parameter return values

Parameter Name	Parameter description	Return Value	Return Value Type	Example
src	Location on ansible executor	changed	string	/home/httpd/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1423796390.97-147729857856000/source
backup_file	Back up the original file	changed and if backup=yes	string	/path/to/file.txt.2015-02-12@22:09~
uid	After execution, the owner's ID	success	int	100
dest	Target directory or file of the remote node	success	string	/path/to/file.txt
checksum	The checksum value after the file is copied.	success	string	6e642bb8dd5c2e027bf21dd923337cbb4214f827
md5sum	Md5 checksum value after the file is copied	when supported	string	2a5aeecc61dc98c4d780b14b330e3282
state	Status after execution	success	string	file
gid	Group ID with folders and files after execution	success	int	100
mode	Permission for the file after execution	success	string	0644
owner	Name of the file owner after execution	success	string	httpd
group	Names of all groups in the file after execution	success	string	httpd
size	File size after execution	success	int	1220