Ansible - Create multiple folders if don't exist
Using Ansible modules, you don't need to check if something exist or not, you just describe the desired state, so:
- name: create directory if they don't exist
file:
path: "{{ item }}"
state: directory
owner: root
group: root
mode: 0775
loop:
- /data/directory
- /data/another
Ansible - Creating multiple folders without changing permissions of previously existing.
Working fine for me. Hope this works for you as well just try.---
- name: "Creating multiple by checking folders"
hosts: your_host_name
tasks:
- block:
- name: "Checking folders"
stat:
path: "{{item}}"
register: folder_stats
with_items:
- ["/var/www/f1","/var/www/f2","/var/www/f3","/var/www/f4"]
- name: "Creating multiple folders without disturbing previous permissions"
file:
path: "{{item.item}}"
state: directory
mode: 0755
group: root
owner: root
when: item.stat.exists == false
loop:
- "{{folder_stats.results}}"
...
Starting from Ansible 2.5, loop
should be used to iterate over a list, see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#standard-loops
As the Ansible file
module is idempotent, you do not have to check if the folders already exist.
For example:
- name: create backup directories
file:
path: "{{ item }}"
state: directory
owner: backup
group: backup
mode: 0775
loop:
- /backupdisk/certificates
- /backupdisk/mysql
- /backupdisk/wordpress