Ansible playbook to upload and execute a python script

Solution 1:

I have used a similar playbook which works as expected:

# playbook.yml
---
- hosts: ${target}
  sudo: yes

  tasks:
  - name: Copy file
    copy: src=../files/test.py dest=/opt/test.py owner=howardsandford group=admin mode=755

  - name: Execute script
    command: /opt/test.py

And test.py:

#!/usr/bin/python

# write to a file
f = open('/tmp/test_from_python','w')
f.write('hi there\n')

Running the playboook:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml --extra-vars "target=the_host_to_run_script_on"

Shows:

PLAY [the_host_to_run_script_on] ***************************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************
ok: [the_host_to_run_script_on]

TASK: [Copy file] *************************************************************
changed: [the_host_to_run_script_on]

TASK: [Execute script] ********************************************************
changed: [the_host_to_run_script_on]

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
the_host_to_run_script_on  : ok=3    changed=2    unreachable=0    failed=0

And on the remote host:

$ cat /tmp/test_from_python
hi there

Several differences between our setup:

I don't have single quotes around the copy and command parameters
The shebang sets the python interpreter rather than specifying /usr/bin/python from the command line
I set the owner of the script to my own username and primary group that is in sudoers, rather than root

Hopefully this can point you in the right direction of where the differences might be.

Solution 2:

You need only Below plugin script to use

---
- hosts: ${target}
  become: true
  tasks:
  - name: Copy and Execute the script
    script: /opt/test.py

Ansible playbook to upload and execute a python script

Solution 1:

Solution 2:

Related

Recent Posts