Accurate Solution for Ansible Archive Module

hussain · October 8, 2020, 7:39pm

Hi, I have finished Anisble Archive module question and completed it successfully but I feel my solution is not optimized one, as its tasks are repeated. Can some one suggest correct solution.

Here is my solution. I had to repeat it for every host. I think we can use “hosts: all” and dynamically pass the user names as variables. Can some one suggest optimized solution for this.

hosts: stapp01
become: true
tasks:
- name: Compress directory .tgz
  archive:
  path: /usr/src/devops/
  dest: /opt/dba/beta.tar.gz
  format: gz
  owner: tony
  group: tony

nashwan · October 9, 2020, 1:14pm

use ansible variables like this:
group: ‘{{ ansible_user }}’
owner: ‘{{ ansible_user }}’

hussain · October 9, 2020, 1:36pm

@nashwan Thanks for your solution.

Dhanabalan · May 22, 2021, 1:07pm

This is my ansible code

hosts: all

become: yes

tasks:
- name: Compress Directory contents
  
  become: yes
  
  archive:
  
  path: /usr/src/dba/
  
  dest: /opt/dba/ecommerce.tar.gz
  
  format: gz
  
  group: ‘{{ ansible_user }}’
  
  owner: ‘{{ ansible_user }}’

I’m getting below error