Writing to Remote Files with Ansible

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Overview

A task to write to remote files using Ansible. Frequently used.

Playbook

---
- hosts: vps
  become: yes
  user: root
  tasks:
  - name: Add text
    blockinfile:
     dest: /path/to/file
     insertafter: '^# Add Here'
     content: |
        # New Line
         Here is a new line.

Thoughts

It's easy to write.

References

• lineinfile - Ensure a particular line is in a file, or replace an existing line using a back-referenced regular expression.