Cannot unzip the file located on remote centos machine using Ansible

Question

- name: Unzip the Elasticsearch file
  unarchive: src=/root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz dest=/tmp/


TASK [Unzip the Elasticsearch file]     
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fatal: [54.173.94.235]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "ERROR! file or module does not exist: /root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz"}

Is it consider the local file? ...I am running file on my local machine to unzip file on the remote machine. How can I solve this problem?

Sansone

You would need to post related part of the playbook to get useful answer. – Economically

@marbu: posted playbook – Sansone

Answer 1

By default, Ansible copies the file (src) from control machine to the remote machine and unarchives it. If you do not want Ansible to copy the file, set copy=no in your task.

The value of copy is yes by default, so Ansible will try to look for src file in the local machine if you do not set copy=no

unarchive: src=/root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz dest=/tmp/ copy=no

Ansible - Unarchive

Copy

If true, the file is copied from local 'master' to the target machine, otherwise, the plugin will look for src archive at the target machine.

Stephaniestephannie

I want to unzip the folder on the remote machine using ansible script. i am running my script on my local machine and apply those changes to the remote centos machine. Copy will not work in those case. What would be the alternative ? – Sansone

Where is the archive file? on the local machine or on remote machine? – Stephaniestephannie

It is on the remote machine and want to unzip it on the remote machine in a 'tmp' folder – Sansone

Then the archive file does not exist on the remote machine: ERROR! file or module does not exist: /root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz – Stephaniestephannie

It is...It is already there on the remote machine. When I write 'src' it will look for the file on the local machine, that I don't wanna do. How can I let ansible know that file is already there and you just need to unzip it on the remote machine itself ? – Sansone

set copy=no unarchive: src=/root/elasticsearch-1.4.0.tar.gz dest=/tmp/ copy=no – Stephaniestephannie

Note that as of right now the docs say that copy is deprecated and that you should use remote_src instead. This is a lie that's only true if you're running ansible from master. remote_src is not yet released, so if you're baffled why it's not working, it's because it doesn't exist yet. – Burrussburry

Answer 2

add option "remote_src: yes" to unarchive module declaration

you can find it over here ""http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/unarchive_module.html

Stocktonontees

This is a better answer. copy has been deprecated. – Larose