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Ansible Copy: Automated file copy module
Originally published on https://www.virtualizationhowto.com by Brandon Lee on August 8, 2023.
There is no doubt that Ansible is an excellent tool in the home lab, production, and any other environment you want to automate. It provides configuration management capabilities, and the learning curve isn’t too steep. There is a module, in particular, we want to look at, the Ansible copy module, and see how we can use it to copy files between a local machine and a remote server.
What is Ansible?
Ansible is a tool that I have been using for quite some time now, in the home lab and in production environments. It is an awesome configuration management solution that allows automating multiple operations on a remote host, from management to app deployment and configuring new greenfield installations.
One of the great things about Ansible is its agentless design, meaning you don’t have to worry about installing agents on your endpoints or servers to manage them with Ansible.
Simplifying Complex Tasks
By using YAML, a human-readable language, you can define automation ‘playbooks’ that describe the desired state of your system.
Whether copying individual files using the ansible copy module or managing entire infrastructure estates, the playbooks allow you to do this in an automated way.
