How to copy files with ansible relatively to the role?

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sorin picture sorin · Feb 18, 2016 · Viewed 71.2k times · Source

I have a copy task inside a role and I was expecting that the src location would be relative to the role itself, not the playbook that calls the roles.

How do I make this work and use the files from myfrole/files from a task inside myrole/tasks, I don't want to include the role name as part of the path as it does not make much sense. If I do it will break if I duplicate the role.

Answer

udondan picture udondan · Feb 19, 2016

If you do not provide any path at all, just the filename, Ansible will pick it automatically from the files directory of the role.

- copy:
    src: foo.conf
    dest: /etc/foo.conf

Additionally, since Ansible 1.8, there is the variable role_path which you could use in your copy task.

- copy:
    src: "{{ role_path }}/files/foo.conf"
    dest: /etc/foo.conf

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