Sounds like you'd have an asset server role that gets executed against the asset server that collects all the assets, followed by a role that gets executed against "target host". Take a look at the get_url module for getting files from the web to your asset server, and get_url or synchronize method to pull them from your asset server to your target host.
- James On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jason Sheedy <mobileja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm quite new to Ansible and would like to perform the following in an > idempotent fashion. I would basically like to minimise the number of > downloads I need to perform from the web for certain file assets, so my plan > is to download them once to an asset server and then retrieve them from > there for all the target hosts in our cluster. > > As far as I know the flow would go something like this. > > # does file exist on target host > # if yes exit > # if no retrieve from asset server > # does file exist on asset server > # if not download from web to asset server > # copy file from asset server to target host > > Are there any modules I could use to do this or are there any other > recommendations on best practices for this scenario? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/58d8fa8a-c250-4c07-9b22-c7a20cd789c7%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAJvmrNPpvPJ9c%2BW9PfofA4_ZC7k0XfJPffgxdiZF2uP28C8bvQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
