I’m trying to unzip a file (https://download.axoniq.io/axonserver/AxonServer.zip), to copy the contents to a server host. The zip however contains a root folder which contains the release version (i.e. AxonServer-2023.2.1).
I’ve been trying to find a way to extract the contents of that root folder generically.
I wasn’t able to find an option in the unarchive API however, so I tried doing it in the following manner:
- name: AxonServer.zip should be unzipped
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Make folder
file:
path: ../../files/server
state: directory
- name: Extract ./files/AxonServer.zip into ./files/server/
unarchive:
src: ../../files/AxonServer.zip
dest: ../../files/server
extra_opts:
- "--add-file"
- "*/."
- name: Get latest unzipped files in the folder
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Register all unzipped folders in the server folder
find:
paths: ../../files/server
file_type: directory
register: found_files
- name: Creating a variable of the newest folder
set_fact:
newest_folder: "{{(found_files.files | sort(attribute='mtime',reverse=true) | first).path}}"
- name: Debug folder name
debug:
var: newest_folder
- name: Copy over the files to the Axon host
copy:
src: "{{newest_folder}}/"
dest: "~/axon"
However this method seems quite verbose, imperative. And doesn´t even work due to the task Get latest unzipped files in the folder needing to be ran on localhost first but the subtask Copy over the files to the Axon host needing to be axon, not localhost. As right now files get copied to localhost’s home folder, which of course isn’t that helpful.
So, I’m either looking for a better way to unarchive zip files with variably named root folders, a better way to store and use variables (so I can split the tasks up and use multiple hosts configurations), or a combination of the both. Feel free to completely flip the problem/solution on it’s head if it helps solve the problem.
If I understand your situation correctly, list_files parameter for unarchive module may helps you.
unarchive can return list of extacted files if list_files is true, and the first value of the list should always be root directory (of course only if the zip has root directory).
So you can:
Specify list_files: true for unarchive and register returned value by register
Extract the name of the root directory by <REGISTARED_VARIABLE>.files[0] | regex_replace('\\/$', '')
Note the variable root_dir is stored as only for localhost. But you can refer this variable by hostvars.localhost.root_dir in the plays for another host, if this plays in the same playbook:
- name: Copy over the files to the Axon host
hosts: axon_target
tasks:
- name: Debug folder name
debug:
var: hostvars.localhost.root_dir
Result:
PLAY [Copy over the files to the Axon host] ***********************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] ********************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [axon_target]
TASK [Debug folder name] ******************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [axon_target] => {
"hostvars.localhost.root_dir": "AxonServer-2023.2.1"
}
