Ansible playbook doesn't copy files, does not give error

Question

My ansible playbook is only copying one of the files that I have specified. The playbook runs to completion without any errors. If I run the same command outside of a playbook it will copy

My very simple playbook

---
- hosts: "dudes"
  vars:
    remote_user: root
tasks:
    - name: Installs logstash-forwarder rpm
      yum: name=logstash-forwarder state=present disable_gpg_check=yes

    - name: Add the certs init and etc files into place
      action: copy src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder.crt dest=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ owner=root group=root mode=644
      action: copy src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder-etc dest=/etc/logstash-forwarder owner=root group=root mode=644 force=yes
      action: copy src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder-etc-sysconfig dest=/etc/sysconfig/logstash-forwarder owner=root group=root mode=644 force=yes
      action: copy src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder-init-d dest=/etc/init.d/logstash-forwarder mode=0755

    - name: add logstash forwarder to chkconfig
      command: chkconfig --add logstash-forwarder
      notify:
            - start logstash-forwarder
handlers:
    - name: start logstash-forwarder
      service: name=logstash-forwarder enabled=yes state=started

I run the playbook with

ansible-playbook -l doozy logstash-forwarder-dudes.yml 

and it completes without any errors, saying all tasks are OK

The only file that actually gets copied is the last file, which is the logstash-forwarder into init.d. The chkconfig add also seems to work

If I run the command with ansible -m (instead of the playbook) on one of the files that didn't copy before, it will copy them without error

ansible -m copy -a "src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder.crt dest=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ owner=root group=root mode=644" doozy

I'm not sure why the files do not end up getting copied to the desination host in my playbook, but will work by calling the ansible copy module?

Answer 1

There can't be multiple actions in Ansible task.

Copy the files in four tasks and it should work:

- name: Copy logstash-forwarder.crt
  copy: src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder.crt dest=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ owner=root group=root mode=644

- name: Copy /etc/logstash-forwarder
  copy: src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder-etc dest=/etc/logstash-forwarder owner=root group=root mode=644 force=yes

- name: Copy /etc/sysconfig/logstash-forwarder
  copy: src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder-etc-sysconfig dest=/etc/sysconfig/logstash-forwarder owner=root group=root mode=644 force=yes

- name: Copy /etc/init.d/logstash-forwarder
  copy: src=/etc/ansible/files/logstash-forwarder/logstash-forwarder-init-d dest=/etc/init.d/logstash-forwarder mode=0755

In the code I've also used Action Shorthand and replaced action: module ... notation with module: .... It doesn't change the way the code works but is the preferred way to call a module.