Delegate with template with source file on remote

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Hi,

I have a project where I wanted to use templates but instead of having them on ansible server, I wanted to use a remote file and deploy it.

Why? As I’m cloning site project on remote front servers, and the template is in the project so dev’s could update it.

So I have server 1 ( ansible controller )

Server 2 ( target ) with template.php.dist file on /home

I created a role with main task:

  • name: Create conf config/template.php
    template: >
    src=“/home/template.php.dist”
    dest=“/home/licom.php”
    delegate_to: “{{ item }}”
    with_items:
  • “{{ inventory_hostname }}”

So I delegate the task to execute on server 2 here but seem that the template will always check for server 1 as source. Is there a way to changer the source server? So I won’t need to clone the entire project on server 1?

Thanks
Mehdi B

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After checking the archive:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/HqCymjQoVjc

Seem the point here as we need jinja2 on remote server too and python. So best is festching it once using

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/fetch_module.html

Then pushing back the file.

If anyone have better idea you are welcome.

Mehdi B