modules needed

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I'm working through some of my puppet recipes for systems and working
out what modules are needed for ansible to make the playbooks have
similar solutions/feature parity.

here are the items I've found so far:

- mount file systems/fstab edits
- copy file src fall through.

Those are the big ticket items I've found.

-sv

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What does ‘src fall through’ mean?

would it be like

src=a,b,c dest=foo

and use the first one available?

seems like we could teach the copy module that trick

I also want it to be able to do

src= dest=

to do some limited recursive copying

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What does 'src fall through' mean?

would it be like

src=a,b,c dest=foo

and use the first one available?

yes. it's a cheat i use quite often with puppet to let me have
host-specific configs w/o resorting to some fairly awful templating
hacks.

seems like we could teach the copy module that trick

I agree - but I'm a bit confused how the copy module can see that from
the remote side. I need to look at how it works a bit better, though.

I also want it to be able to do

src=<directory> dest=<directory>

to do some limited recursive copying

copy could grow a recurse option.

-sv

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seems like we could teach the copy module that trick

I agree - but I’m a bit confused how the copy module can see that from
the remote side. I need to look at how it works a bit better, though.

Did I read that to mean it’s copying remote files to remote files, instead of local files to remote files?

copy mostly (today) is done in runner – so picking which local file to transfer is not a big problem, the remote wouldn’t have to know.

I also want it to be able to do

src= dest=

to do some limited recursive copying

copy could grow a recurse option.

yep.