Why doesn't ansible have an archive module?

Solution 1:

Module has been added in Ansible 2.2 as an extra module, see:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/archive_module.html

Solution 2:

It seems the Ansible folks welcome the idea, but demand has actually not been large enough for someone to step up and create such a module:

• related SO question with source code for shell approach
• Module Request: Extract and Archive on GitHub
• trying to write a tar module/action_plugin Ansible mailing list post