Ansible Quick Start Guide

Data distribution modules (copy, unarchive, and get_url)

The copy module is used to transfer files from the Ansible master to the remote hosts or locally from within the remote host. This is followed by unarchive, which is an archive extractor that then transfers the files to the selected hosts. The get_url module basically downloads a file from a web location as an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP file. The following playbook shows how each module can be used to achieve a goal:

    - name: copy file from within a remote host      copy:         src: /usr/local/script.py         dest: /home/user1/script.py         remote_src: yes         owner: user1         group: developers         mode: 0755         - name: extract an archive into remote hosts      unarchive:         src: ~/archive.tar.gz         dest: /usr/local/         owner: user1 group: ...