ansible combination of “template” and “synchronize”?

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ansible combination of “template” and “synchronize”?



We have a large number of jinja templates and have been using Ansible's template_module to render them and deploy them locally, or on a remote nfs (mounted locally).


jinja



We now need to deply them on a remote machine's local disc, and the only thing comes to mind is Ansible synchronize_module. However, I cannot see a direct way to ask the synchronize module to render jina templates before rsyncing them remotely.


synchronize



What is the best way to do this under Ansible?





I am not shure, if I understood your question correctly. As far as I understood it, you want to place a rendered template file on a remote machine. But this is exactly what the template module can be used for: - template: src: /mytemplates/foo.j2 dest: /etc/file.conf will place the file on /etc/file.conf on the remote machine.
– Stefan Wegener
5 hours ago







@StefanWegener I can't see any option to specify the localhost and the remotehost?
– Meitham
5 hours ago





The remotehosts are defined via your inventory, if you want to execute it on your local machine, you could execute template in combination with local_action (docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/user_guide/…)
– Stefan Wegener
5 hours ago









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