trouble slurping archives

using ansible 2.3.2.0 on fedora 26, the vagrant boxes run ubuntu 16.04

slurp fails on tar.gz archives

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I have look in to this, b64encode and b64decode only support stings, not binary data.

What you could do on host bob:

   - copy:
       content: '{{ hostvars.alice.etc.content }}'
       dest: /tmp/etc.tgz
       mode: 0600

   - shell: base64 --decode /tmp/etc.tgz >/root/etc.tgz

   - file:
       path: /tmp/etc.tgz
       state: absent