Ansible task to read definition file from the Ansible controller file system

Question

I'm working on a small project for my college. I've to automate the entire process using Ansible. Most of it is done. This section says that I need to read a definition file from the Ansible controller file system. How do I write a playbook for it?

Answer 1

Hey, you can use the k8s module for this purpose. You can try something like this:

- name: Read file from the Ansible controller file system.
  
    k8s:
    state: present
    definition: "{{ lookup('file', '/path-to-file/deployment.yml') }}"

If You want your task to fail on errors, you can enable it by adding the following line

 validate:
      fail_on_error: yes