I ended up going this route: --- - hosts: "{{ host }}" vars: dest_dir: "/tmp/fetched" tasks: - name: Ensure destination directory exists file: dest: "{{ dest_dir }}" state: directory changed_when: false
- name: Fetch files from remote server fetch: src: "{{item.src}}" dest: "{{item.dest}}" flat: yes with_items: - {src: "/etc/security/limits.conf", dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}_limits.conf"} - {src: "/etc/sysctl.conf", dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}_sysctl.conf"} - {src: "/boot/grub/grub.conf", dest: "{{ dest_dir }}/{{ inventory_hostname }}_grub.conf"} - name: Compress results archive: path: "{{ dest_dir }}/" dest: "{{ dest_dir }}.tar.bz2" format: bz2 delegate_to: localhost notify: - Email results - Cleanup local files -- 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/ab8ce66c-5ebf-4cb0-83dd-dd671baeb4fb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.