Hi,
At $customer we have a tree of files that need to be distributed, and most
of these files actually require to be templated to the target systems.
The playbook is quite complicated as with_fileglob is carefully written to
do the correct actions on the various files, however since this impacts
various subdirectories and files it becomes a nuisance to adapt the
playbook when changes are made. (e.g. directories have to be created in
advance, permissions need to be set individually, etc.)
The solution we implemented is a filetree lookup plugin that simply
performs these actions recursively on a tree, which allows us to
recursively template files on-the-go. A long set of specific tasks are
reduced to basically two tasks.
More information about the filetree plugin is available from PR #14332
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/14332
I am looking for feedback on this new plugin, and possible use-cases.
(More use-cases could be helpful for the unfinished documentation)
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Dag
