Ansible Quick Start Guide

File and folder management modules

The file module is basically the tool to manage everything to do with files and folder organization in terms of creation, removal, symlinks creation, permissions, and ownership.

We have linked the file module to the access control list (ACL) module, which is a module that only works on permission and ownership of files and folders on the Linux environment, to show that some tasks can be combined. This is shown in the following playbook:

    - name: create a file with some specific acl      file:         path: /usr/local/script.py         state: touch         owner: user1         group: developers         mode: 0755         - name: change acl of a file      acl:         path: /usr/local/script.py         entity: user2         permission: w         state: present