Create Directory in Ansible

Directory is very necessary for linux operation.You can create Directory in linux system using shell through command.But when we are going to create directory large no of systems one after another at a time we utilize Ansible because it is extremely easier to implement large no of systems at a same time.

We are going to implement node1 machine though ansible.

In this tutorial we learn how to create directory in ansible,how to create multiples directories in Ansible,how to create local directory in ansible,how to change permission of a directory in ansible and how to change permission of a directory recursively.

Create Directory in Ansible

You can create a directory using ansible file module.Here we have to defined two arguments one is path and other is state.Normally we create a directory using mkdir command. When we are going to create a directory using ansible we set the state parameters to ‘directory’ .

---

- hosts: node1
  tasks:
  - name: ansible create directory example
    file:
      path: /opt/testdir
      state: directory

create directory in ansible

Create multiple directories in Ansible

We can create multiple directories running ansible playbook using with_items module.

Let’s try an example

We are going to create testdir1,testdir2,testdir3 under /opt

---

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: create multiple directories
    file:
      path: "{{ item }}"
      state: directory
    with_items:
      - '/opt/testdir1'
      - '/opt/testdir2'
      - '/opt/testdir3'

Create local directory in Ansible

Local_action statement is used in ansible when we are going to create a directory on the local machine as well as remote machine simultaneously .Directoy is created on the local machine before creating the remote maching when we execute the playbook.

---

- hosts: all
  tasks:
  - name: create local directory in ansible
    local_action:
      module: file
      path: /opt/localdir
      state: directory

Change Permissions of a Directory in Ansible

In the above example we have created a directory with default permission .Now we want to change the directory defaults permission.So, We have to focused one arguments that is mode .

Now we are going to change the default permission of testdir directory which is located at /opt .

We can use the octal form or symbolic form to define the mode agument.

---

- hosts: node1
  tasks:
  - name: change permission of directory in ansible
    file:
      path: /opt/testdir
      state: directory
      mode: 0777

Change Permissions of Directory recursively

The above example we have changed only permission of a directory from its default permission.Now we are going to change the change the permission of this directory recursively that means change the pemission of the directory as well as change the permission of those files and directories which is inside the parent directory.

---- hosts: node1
  tasks:
  - name: change recursive permission of directory in ansible
    file:
      path: /opt/testdir
      state: directory
      mode: 0777
      recurse: yes

Delete Directory in Ansible

We can delete a directory in Ansible to set the state value to ‘absent’.

---
- hosts: node1
  tasks:
  - name: delete directory in ansible
    file:
      path: /opt/testdir
      state: absent

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