Store variable to file on SFTP server with Ansible [duplicate] - json

Question

I have a local file and I need to upload into a remote FTP (not SFTP) server with login.
Please, how could I do that?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Depending on your use case, infrastructure, capabilities of the remote FTP server, etc., there might be several options.
If you like to use plain File Transfer Protocol (FTP) over TCP/21
A Custom Module like ftp - Transfers files and directories from or to FTP servers
The shell module – Execute shell commands on targets with curl
- name: Transfer file to FTP server
shell:
cmd: "curl --silent --user {{ ansible_user }}:{{ ansible_password }} ftp://ftp.example.com -T {{ fileToTransfer }}"
register: result
If the FTP server software has additionally HTTP server capabilities implemented
The module uri - Interacts with webservices with parameter method: PUT
- name: Upload content
local_action:
module: uri
url: "http://ftp.example.oom"
method: PUT
url_username: "{{ ansible_user }}"
url_password: "{{ ansible_password }}"
body: "{{ lookup('file', fileToTransfer) }}"
register: result
... not sure if this would work, haven't tested such setup yet and there is still information missing
Other Q&A
How to upload one file by FTP from command line?
How to upload a file to FTP via curl but from stdin?
Further Documentation
curl --upload-file
RFC 959