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Setup: Ansible initializes and runs from inside a docker container. A git repo which contains the playbooks and inventory files is loaded into this container.

What the playbook does: The specific playbook that I'm working on runs a simple findmnt on all of the hosts listed in the inventory, and writes the output to a flat txt file, which I'm then fetching.

Actual Issue: The ansible container isn't running in the detached mode and so when the run is done, there's no way to retrieve these result txt files. Since there is a git repo layered into the container, I tried stashing these into it, but the command again executes on the inventory-hosts instead of the container from where Ansible is running. I've tried multiple methods to do the same, but am unable to find a way to have ansible do a set of operations within the container that it is running from. How do I handle this situation.

Playbook:

---

      - name: get the nfs mounts reports 

        hosts: 2017_CI

        become: true

        vars :

        nfs_results: "/tmp/{{ host_name }}.txt"

        host_name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"





        tasks:

           - name: "get the list of nfs mounts on {{ host_name }} "

           #shell: 'findmnt -lo source,target,fstype,label,options,used -t  nfs'

           #AIX  nfsstat -m

           shell: 'mount -l -t nfs'

           register: nfs_output

           failed_when: "'FAILED' in nfs_output.stderr"    



           - name: Store the nfs report ouput file  

             copy:

             content: "{{ nfs_output.stdout }}n"

             dest: "{{ nfs_results }}"

             owner: root

             group: root

             mode: 0777

             force: yes

             register: nfs_results 



             - name:  Fetching the output to ansible host

               fetch:

                src: "/tmp/{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt"

               dest: "/tmp/"

               flat: yes

             - pause:

               minutes: 2





             - name:  copying file with  permissions

               copy:

                src: "/tmp/{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt"

               dest: "/data/web/nfsmountInfo/"

              owner: root

              group: root

               mode: 0777 









          # - name: Transfer file from ServerA to ServerB

                 #   synchronize:

      #     src: "/tmp/{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt"

      #     dest: "/data/web/nfsmountInfo/"

      #     mode: push

      #   delegate_to: "localhost"

      #   become: yes

      #   become_user: root





      # - pause:

      #     minutes: 1



      # - name: git configuration fo email setup

      #   git_config:

      #     name: user.email

      #     scope: global

      #     value: 'xxxx@x.com'

      # - name: git configuration fo email setup

      #   git_config:

      #     name: user.name

      #     scope: global

      #     value: 'myUser'



      # - name: Add the files into staging workspace

      #   shell: git add .

      #   args:

      #       chdir: '/home/jenkins/workspace/TestPipelines/NFSTestAnsible/nfsmountInfo/'



      # - name: Commit the changes

      #   shell: git commit -m "Update the nfsmount reports"

      #   args:

      #       chdir: '/home/jenkins/workspace/TestSaddamPipelines/NFSTestAnsible/nfsmountInfo/'



      # - name: Set origin to include username and password.

      #   shell: "git remote set-url origin https://user@http://<gitServer>/inf-build-ansible.git"

      # - name: Push to origin.

      #   shell: "git push origin nfs-mnt-testing"

You can delegate_to: 127.0.0.1 or use the shorthand local_action on a per task-basis (ref. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_delegation.html) for example:

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

  - name: run task on inventory hosts

    debug: 

      msg: 'this task will execute on all hosts'



  - name: delegate task to 127.0.0.1

    debug: 

      msg: 'this task is delegated to the ansible control server'

    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1



  - name: use the local_action syntax for delegation

    local_action:

      module: debug

      msg: 'executing on the control server'