Getting started with Ansible 11 - Managing Files

[@SoggyWaffles1984]

I have been watching this series for about three days now and thank you so much. I have watched several others and just quit at the beginning because I just did not get it. but the way you present this information I get. so thank you.

[@vVxBATMANxVv]

These videos are well put together and extremely to the point and informative. Really appreciate the content great job!

[@mathewkargarzadeh3158]

Great Content Jay !!!. especially the part of the playbook on downloading a zip file. you are the MAN !!!. Thanks a million for this invaluable tutorial. God Bless you and your family.

[@osswriter]

While watching the video, I was actually thinking about how to copy files with Ansible. Then, a few minutes in at 5:20 or so, I noticed the exact solution to my problem was right there all along .. fantastic! 😂

[@jgranahan]

Thanks Jay, for keeping the Ansible videos coming!

[@LearnLinuxTV]

I sure will. At least two more next week while I get caught up on editing.

[@RandomNullpointer]

My OCD would almost kill me if I don't mention that should come inside a . Sorry 😅

[@torgeirleirbakken896]

Once again, great content. Learned a lot from this video :-)

[@mountain_boy_bhutan]

Awaiting Videos on Network Automation using Ansible :)

[@albudri8355]

Fantastic ansible videos, excellent clear and precise presentations.. one question, in 17:30 inn this video you had to ssh to the workstation, I assume to sort out the finger print, my question is what if you had 100,s or 1000,s of such work stations?? surely you wouldnt have to ssh to each one to sort the finger printing.. your advise would be greatly appreciated .. thanking you in advance

[@bhupendrasinghsuri496]

Very helpful & thanks for guiding. But we look forward for some advanced ansible too from you.

[@LumiraCyberwolfie]

This truly is awesome! I love your series.

[@ajaybiswal1]

Amazing explanations. Better than udemy. Please make videos on Docker and kubernetes. BTW i subscribed your channel

[@BrotherKaif]

Great video as always. Thanks for your excellent work!

[@DrazenMarjanovic]

Appreciate the content great job! 😁

[@clivegwyther5683]

I am starting to learn Ansible. I need to find a way to actually input data into a file, for example, let's say I want the User to be asked "What is the ip address of remote machine?" followed by, "What is the FQDN or DNS name of the remote machine?".... Now I want both of those two answers to be placed into "/etc/hosts". Another example would be "my.cnf" for mysql manipulation. How can I automate entries into this file or any file actually? I want to be able to automate a full, bespoke, freeradius solution for myself and need to know how to manipulate these files or it won't be fully automated. Thanks

[@vialomur__vialomur5682]

Amazing tutorials thanks a lot!

[@TepmF]

How does the source file knows its path? (great video's BTW ty)

[@bumbee939]

Good Q ! Did you ever find an answer to this ?

[@Hamza_The_Dev]

This is only when you're copying files from a directory called "files". Other than that, you need to specify the full relative/absolute path for your files.

[@ricobelgin5986]

I do have one question. What OS did you use for the workstation VM?

[@AkebonoRadio]

Thank You Jay!!!!

[@hamidja1537]

Thanks for sharing

[@orkhanalikhanov]

I could not find terraform video in your channel

[@luke421]

amzingggggggggggggg

[@gideon30]

How did the ansible playbook knew that the file is inside the file folder?

[@Glatze603]

you linked the wrong wiki-article

[@lightiv]

**First, I am loving these tutorials but I have to laugh. Even running the video at half speed I cannot keep up with your typing. :)

[@Kumbutranjaami]

I think ansible wants us to scratch our head when it comes to use copy module. 1. copy module copies "files/default_html.html" file to target when "files/default_html.html" file exist and "src: default_html.html" in the play. 2. copy module copies "files/default_html.html" file to target when I have both "./default_html.html" and "files/default_html.html" files and "src: default_html.html" in the play. what the heck? 3. copy module copies "./default_html.html" file to target when I have only "./default_html.html" and "src: default_html.html" in the play. what the heck heck? Just see #2, no one would expect that ansible will copy the file "files/default_html.html" when "src: default_html.html" and you have "./default_html.html" file. All confusion starts when ansible tries to assume the directory we didn't provide in the play. The worst thing in this is ansible said nothing (yes nothing) about this assumption in their documentation. docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/copy_module.html

[@n-o-i-d]

I was looking for this comment. I also tested the scenarios you mentioned and it's exactly how you say. Thanks for shedding light on this.