Hi there,
Looking for any pointers that instructs the EE to write to a volume so I can access the fetch’d data.
In summary, the playbook runs just fine, I can cat the file I am fetching from within the playbook but it never ends up in the volume. Volume src is /tmp/temp and dest is /tmp, see below.
File ansible-navigator:
ansible-navigator:
ansible:
inventory:
entries:
- inventory.yml
execution-environment:
container-engine: podman
volume-mounts:
- src: /tmp/temp
dest: /tmp
options: "Z"
enabled: true
image: localhost/user/ibm-zos-ee
pull:
policy: never
logging:
level: debug
I have also run it with the volume options passed as well (below) and other variations:
ansible-navigator run test.yml -i inventory.yml -m stdout --eev /tmp/temp:/tmp/:rw,Z
The only think that gets written into the volume is:
/tmp/temp $: pwd
/tmp/temp
/tmp/temp $: ls -laR
total 0
drwxrwxrwx@ 3 user wheel 96 Oct 7 22:49 .
drwxrwxrwt 13 root wheel 416 Oct 8 13:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 user wheel 64 Oct 7 22:49 ibm-zos-ee
./ibm-zos-ee:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 user wheel 64 Oct 7 22:49 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 3 user wheel 96 Oct 7 22:49 .
Playbook task is pretty simple:
- name: Fetch another file
ansible.builtin.fetch:
src: /tmp/out.txt
dest: /tmp/out.2.txt
flat: true
register: result
- name: Cat out.2.txt
vars:
ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
ansible.builtin.command:
cmd: "cat /tmp/out.2.txt"
register: result
ignore_errors: true
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Print result.
vars:
ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ result }}"
ignore_errors: true
Result from cat shows the EE did fetch the file, (note the file only has the character a in it, very simple file) which you can see this "stdout": "a", below.
TASK [Print result.] ***********************************************************
ok: [zvm] => {
"msg": {
"changed": true,
"cmd": [
"cat",
"/tmp/out.2.txt"
],
"delta": "0:00:00.002201",
"end": "2025-10-08 23:19:59.759859",
"failed": false,
"msg": "",
"rc": 0,
"start": "2025-10-08 23:19:59.757658",
"stderr": "",
"stderr_lines": [],
"stdout": "a",
"stdout_lines": [
"a"
]
}
}