Cannot unzip the file located on remote centos machine using Ansible

Question

- name: Unzip the Elasticsearch file
  unarchive: src=/root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz dest=/tmp/


TASK [Unzip the Elasticsearch file]     
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fatal: [54.173.94.235]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "ERROR! file or module does not exist: /root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz"}

Is it consider the local file? ...I am running file on my local machine to unzip file on the remote machine. How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

By default, Ansible copies the file (src) from control machine to the remote machine and unarchives it. If you do not want Ansible to copy the file, set copy=no in your task.

The value of copy is yes by default, so Ansible will try to look for src file in the local machine if you do not set copy=no

unarchive: src=/root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz dest=/tmp/ copy=no

Ansible - Unarchive

Copy

If true, the file is copied from local 'master' to the target machine, otherwise, the plugin will look for src archive at the target machine.