Ansible troubleshooting - failure downloading

Today we’re going to talk about Ansible troubleshooting, specifically about failure downloading. I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

demo

The best way of talking about Ansible troubleshooting is to jump in a live demo to show you practically the failure downloading and how to solve it!

failuredownloading_error.yml

---
- name: unarchive module demo
  hosts: all
  become: false
  vars:
    myurl: "https://github.com/lucab85/ansible-pilot/archive/refs/master.zip"
  tasks:
    - name: extract archive
      ansible.builtin.unarchive:
        src: "{{ myurl }}"
        dest: "/home/devops/"
        remote_src: true
        validate_certs: true

failuredownloading_fix.yml

---
- name: unarchive module demo
  hosts: all
  become: false
  vars:
    myurl: "https://github.com/lucab85/ansible-pilot/archive/refs/heads/master.zip"
  tasks:
    - name: extract archive
      ansible.builtin.unarchive:
        src: "{{ myurl }}"
        dest: "/home/devops/"
        remote_src: true
        validate_certs: true

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