Copying gitconfig onto the Nodes

Updated Dec 04, 2020 ·

Overview

This lab uses Ansible to copy a Git configuration file from the controller to managed nodes, which demonstrates basic file distribution with a playbook.

Diagram:

In our files directory, let's create master.gitconfig which we will then then we can pass that file onto the managed nodes.

$ cat > master.gitconfig
[user]
        name = Jose Eden
        email = joseden@gmail.com

We'll use the copy module to the localhost's home directory first.

$ ansible -m copy -a "src=master.gitconfig dest=~/master-bak.gitconfig" localhost

It will then return the following,

localhost | CHANGED => {
    "changed": true,
    "dest": "/home/joseeden/master-bak.gitconfig",
    "gid": 1000,
    "group": "joseeden",
    "mode": "0644",
    "owner": "joseeden",
    "size": 66,
    "src": "/home/joseeden/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1642014696.9249792-186511815307980/source",
    "state": "file",
    "uid": 1000
}

To test,

$ git config --global --list
user.name=Jose Eden
user.email=josemanuelitoeden@gmail.com

That one is particularly easy because it's as simple as copying the file from one directory to another.

Sending git to the hosts

$ ansible -m copy -a "src=master.gitconfig dest=~/master-bak.gitconfig" webservers -u eden

app2 | CHANGED => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"
    },
    "changed": true,
    "dest": "/home/eden/master-bak.gitconfig",
    "gid": 1000,
    "group": "eden",
    "mode": "0664",
    "owner": "eden",
    "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0",
    "size": 62,
    "src": "/home/eden/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1641861428.6034608-215829038823036/source",
    "state": "file",
    "uid": 1000
}
app3 | CHANGED => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"
    },
    "changed": true,
    "dest": "/home/eden/master-bak.gitconfig",
    "gid": 1000,
    "group": "eden",
    "mode": "0664",
    "owner": "eden",
    "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0",
    "size": 62,
    "src": "/home/eden/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1641861428.6450894-210780739412380/source",
    "state": "file",
    "uid": 1000
}
app1 | CHANGED => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"
    },
    "changed": true,
    "dest": "/home/eden/master-bak.gitconfig",
    "gid": 1000,
    "group": "eden",
    "mode": "0664",
    "owner": "eden",
    "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0",
    "size": 62,
    "src": "/home/eden/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1641861428.5550222-9019062638621/source",
    "state": "file",
    "uid": 1000
}
app4 | CHANGED => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"
    },
    "changed": true,
    "dest": "/home/eden/master-bak.gitconfig",
    "gid": 1000,
    "group": "eden",
    "mode": "0664",
    "owner": "eden",
    "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0",
    "size": 62,
    "src": "/home/eden/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1641861428.683703-226137740775965/source",
    "state": "file",
    "uid": 1000
}

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