Copy files between two remote servers WITHOUT synchronize module

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Hello all!

I have an issue in my environment where I cannot use the synchronize module to transfer data between two remote nodes. So I need a different way to do this.

ServerA: Ansible Server (Tower Instance)
ServerA1: Ansible Server (Tower Instance)
ServerA2: Ansible Server (Tower Instance)

ServerB: Data Server

ServerC: User Server

I want to run a playbook on ServerA and have it copy a/many file(s) from ServerB to ServerC. I cannot use synchronize do to environmental issues. So how can I get this done ether using copy or fetch modules. Or something else like SCP from the shell or command module.

I cannot find a good example of doing this other than the synchronize module. I do not want to just copy the data files to the tower servers. I need to keep my environment the same as it is today without changes.

I’m using ansible 2.7. These are all Redhat Linux Servers.

Here is a sample I tried. Really simple but…Inventory comes from tower server which is why the hosts says “all”

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Hi Glen,

You may use copy and fetch module as shown below:
In the below playbook the files would be fetch from source machine and stored temporarily on the control node and then copied to the destination.

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