How to Copy Multiple Files with Ansible

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If you need to copy multiple files using Ansible, then you can do the following:

How to Copy Multiple Files with Ansible

Look into using the with_fileglob loop as follows:

- copy:
    src: "{{ item }}"
    dest: /etc/fooapp/
    owner: root
    mode: 600
  with_fileglob:
    - /playbooks/files/fooapp/*

If you would like to do it as a task, then this could help:

- name: Your copy task
  copy: src={{ item.src }} dest={{ item.dest }}
  with_items:
    - { src: 'another_file', dest: '/etc/somewhere' }
    - { src: 'dynamic', dest: '{{ var_path }}' }
  # repeat for additional files
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