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In this video we are going to copy files from our local host or ansible control node to our remote clients.

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If you copying one file from one location or one host to another host, it's fairly simple.

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You could just run a SIP command or any other command of Linux to copy from your local client to a remote

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client.

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But what if you have to copy that same file to multiple or hundreds of remote clients?

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Then that becomes a lot of work.

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So that's when you will use Ansible copy module to automate that task.

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All right.

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The first thing we'll do is we'll create some file.

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We'll call it some dot cfg file or config file, and we'll put that file inside of home files all directory.

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And that's just a random directory that I picked.

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You can pick any directory of your choice.

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Then we are adding some stuff, something that we are writing inside of that somewhat cfg file.

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All right, once that file is created, then we will use the vim editor and we'll name the file copy

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html.

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Once we are in editor will define it with dash, dash, dash and which you will tell the system that

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it's a YAML file and then the name copy file from local host to remote clients.

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Or you could pick any name of your choice.

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It's just a description of the play or playbook.

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Then the host run this playbook against the hosts or all the hosts that are in ETSI Ansible Host file,

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then the MTP line and then we have the task.

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And if you pay close attention once again, you'll notice the task is exactly vertically aligned right

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below the name and the host.

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So that's the task and it's telling us run the following task or list of tasks, but we are running.

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Only one task is to copy the files.

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Now what is the name of that task?

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Copying files.

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All right.

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And then become true.

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That said, additional added thing that I added in here.

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You don't have to add it.

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But in case you wanted to run this as a different user, or if you are running it as regular user and

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you wanted to run it as root, then you could use this option right now is telling you become true transfer

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as a crunch user.

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So if you logged in as root, it will transfer it as root.

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If you logged in as regular user or transfer as a regular user.

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All right.

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Now becomes the most important part of the playbook.

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The module.

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What module are we going to use to copy it?

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There is a copy module.

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All right.

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If you have that copy module, then of course it comes with other options and those options are source

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as RC.

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Just that that option is telling it.

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Where is the file located?

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And this is the source of the file.

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Now, if you are defining the source, then of course one more thing.

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You have to define the destination.

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Exactly.

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We are copying it from the Ansible control node from home.

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I absol some dot cfg to temp directory that's the destination of the file owner.

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Now it gives you additional information.

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You don't have to specify all that.

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If you want to transfer this route, it will transfer a route.

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Now, if you want the file that you are transferring to have a certain permissions and ownership, you

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could define it right here and you can put it in owner.

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I want to transfer as I have, so that's fine group.

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Okay.

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I want to transfer as a group as well.

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Excellent.

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Now, here's another thing.

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Yes, it gives you the mod or mod options, which will tell you if you wanted to change the permission

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of the file.

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So this will change the ownership and file permission of the file once it gets to the destination.

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See how granular it becomes.

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It goes down to details when it's going to copy the file.

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Excellent.

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Now we are going to create that playbook in our control mode.

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We'll run it and we'll check in our remote client.

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All right.

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So we'll first go to our Ansible control node, which is right here.

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Log in as route.

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All right, we're logged in as route.

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And let's move this down right here.

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Let's go to our at sea and Symbol Playbooks directory.

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Here we are going to create the vim file.

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But before we do the vim file, let's put do echo some stuff.

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And I'll put that to home.

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I have all.

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Some dos cfg.

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All right, so you'll notice this file has been created in my home directory right here.

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Some cfg.

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And when I do cat.

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Someday.

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If you want to do cat it, is there some stuff?

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Okay, let's go back to our Etsy playbook.

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Our file is there.

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That's clear the screen.

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Sorry.

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Now let's do him and copy the YAML.

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Define that.

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It's a YAML file.

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Define the name.

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Copy file from local host to remote clients.

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Host.

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All tasks.

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Dash name.

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Copying file.

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This is what the task will do become.

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Oops.

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Sorry.

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You notice one thing.

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There has to be space right here, so be very careful.

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Now when you hit enter, it will automatically do the indentation for you to put that vertically below

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the end.

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Or the name.

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Now become.

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True.

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As the same user used the module copy.

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Excellent.

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Now once you define the module and hit enter, the system knows that this module has been added.

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Now when the user hit enter, I will automatically do the indentation for him or her.

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All right.

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And the options source.

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Slash home, slash eye of salt dash some dot cfg destination.

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Just temp.

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All right, owner.

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Who do you want it to transfer it as?

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I want to have it.

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The ownership change to I absolve the group ownership change to I absol if I don't do it then it will

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be transferred as route and the mode.

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I want to change it to 0644, which is telling it that I want to have read permission for everyone and

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only write permission for the owner of the file.

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All right.

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This is this completes our playbook.

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All right.

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Excellent.

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Now, I will.

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Before I run the playbook, I wanted to make sure that at Sea Ansible host which we have right here,

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this is the host.

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That's the only IPV have for our client.

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I want to make sure I could ping that because I rebooted the system and my system remote client is running

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on DHCP, so it might or its IP might have changed.

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So I wanted to ping it first.

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10.2 53.1 .115.

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All right.

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Perfect.

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It means its IP is the same.

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It did not change.

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Perfect.

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Let's clear the screen.

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And now let's run our Ansible.

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Playbook and we are already in playbook, so we don't need to define the entire absolute path for our

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playbook.

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So we'll just put in copy YAML and hit enter and it is telling us copy file from local host to remote

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clients, which is the name right here, gathering task to which host change to this is the host IP

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address that it found inside of the host file.

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Player recap.

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This is it.

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Okay.

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To done change.

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Done.

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It means it has completed its task successfully.

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Now to confirm we will go to our.

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Remote client.

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Here is our email client.

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And I'm going to log in as root.

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And we asked the playbook to copy the file in the destination slash temp.

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So we'll do CD slash temp and the moment of truth is let's do ls minus l tr.

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And the file is right here, guys.

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Some dos cfg or let's clear the screen.

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You could just do ls minus l some dos cfg and it will tell you that it has been transferred.

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Check the content cat, some de cfg and some stuff is in there.

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Excellent.

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Congratulations.

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You have just completed your playbook in which you can copy files to so many of your remote clients.

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Now you can copy to as many remote clients as you want if you have them.

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And it's the same way.

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If you wanted to move all file, you can use the MOV module and many of the things that you could do

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with this module, you could check the list of options available to you from the documentation.