Copy Local Files to Remote with Ansible

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Overview

This task involves copying files (contents of a directory) from a local machine to a remote location using Ansible.

Playbook

---
- hosts: vps
  become: yes
  user: root
  tasks:
  - name: Copy a directory
    copy:
     src: /path/to/directory/
     dest: /usr/local/bin/
     mode: u+x

This task copies all contents of a directory to the remote /usr/local/bin directory. Permissions are also specified.

Thoughts

There don't seem to be any tricky points; it works as documented.

References

• copy - Copies files to remote locations.