I am planning to execute a shell script on a remote server using Ansible playbook.
blank test.sh file:
touch test.shPlaybook:
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- name: Transfer and execute a script. hosts: server user: test_user sudo: yes tasks: - name: Transfer the script copy: src=test.sh dest=/home/test_user mode=0777 - name: Execute the script local_action: command sudo sh /home/test_user/test.shWhen I run the playbook, the transfer successfully occurs but the script is not executed.
15 Answers
you can use script module
Example
- name: Transfer and execute a script. hosts: all tasks: - name: Copy and Execute the script script: /home/user/userScript.shlocal_action runs the command on the local server, not on the servers you specify in hosts parameter.
Change your "Execute the script" task to
- name: Execute the script command: sh /home/test_user/test.shand it should do it.
You don't need to repeat sudo in the command line because you have defined it already in the playbook.
According to Ansible Intro to Playbooks user parameter was renamed to remote_user in Ansible 1.4 so you should change it, too
remote_user: test_userSo, the playbook will become:
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- name: Transfer and execute a script. hosts: server remote_user: test_user sudo: yes tasks: - name: Transfer the script copy: src=test.sh dest=/home/test_user mode=0777 - name: Execute the script command: sh /home/test_user/test.shIt's better to use script module for that:
For someone wants an ad-hoc command
ansible group_or_hostname -m script -a "/home/user/userScript.sh"or use relative path
ansible group_or_hostname -m script -a "userScript.sh"You can use template module to copy if script exists on local machine to remote machine and execute it.
- name: Copy script from local to remote machine hosts: remote_machine tasks: - name: Copy script to remote_machine template: src=script.sh.2 dest=<remote_machine path>/script.sh mode=755 - name: Execute script on remote_machine script: sh <remote_machine path>/script.sh
