What's the easy way to auto create non existing dir in ansible

Question

In my Ansible playbook many times i need to create file there

 - name: Copy file
   template:
     src: code.conf.j2
     dest: \"{{project_root}}/conf/code.         


        

Answer 1

AFAIK, the only way this could be done is by using the state=directory option. While template module supports most of copy options, which in turn supports most file options, you can not use something like state=directory with it. Moreover, it would be quite confusing (would it mean that {{project_root}}/conf/code.conf is a directory ? or would it mean that {{project_root}}/conf/ should be created first.

So I don't think this is possible right now without adding a previous file task.

- file: 
    path: "{{project_root}}/conf"
    state: directory
    recurse: yes