generate template once for group of hosts

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My understanding is that ansible normally generates a file from a template once per host. Is it possible, when I know in advance that a file will be identical for all hosts in a group, to generate it only once?

Thanks,
tomr

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You can do the following (use two tasks instead of one ‘template’):

  1. Generate the template on the controller host (with delegate_to: localhost and run_once: true)
  2. Copy the generated template to all the other hosts

kind regards
Pshem