Why is copying a directory with Ansible so slow?

Question

I\'m using Ansible to copy a directory (900 files, 136MBytes) from one host to another:

---
- name: copy a directory
  copy: src={{some_directory}} dest={{re         


        

Answer 1

synchronize configuration can be difficult in environments with become_user. For one-time deployments you can archive source directory and copy it with unarchive module:

- name: copy a directory
  unarchive:
    src: some_directory.tar.gz
    dest: {{remote_directory}}
    creates: {{remote_directory}}/indicator_file