Ansible - Create Multiple Folders If Don't Exist

Answer :

Using Ansible modules, you don't need to check if something exist or not, you just describe the desired state, so:

- name: create directory if they don't exist   file:     path: "{{ item }}"     state: directory     owner: root     group: root     mode: 0775   loop:     - /data/directory     - /data/another 

Ansible - Creating multiple folders without changing permissions of previously existing.

Working fine for me. Hope this works for you as well just try.

--- - name: "Creating multiple by checking folders"   hosts: your_host_name   tasks:   - block:     - name: "Checking folders"       stat:        path: "{{item}}"       register: folder_stats       with_items:       - ["/var/www/f1","/var/www/f2","/var/www/f3","/var/www/f4"]     - name: "Creating multiple folders without disturbing previous permissions"       file:        path: "{{item.item}}"        state: directory        mode: 0755        group: root        owner: root       when: item.stat.exists == false       loop:       - "{{folder_stats.results}}" ... 

Starting from Ansible 2.5, loop should be used to iterate over a list, see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#standard-loops

As the Ansible file module is idempotent, you do not have to check if the folders already exist.

For example:

- name: create backup directories   file:     path: "{{ item }}"     state: directory     owner: backup     group: backup     mode: 0775   loop:     - /backupdisk/certificates     - /backupdisk/mysql     - /backupdisk/wordpress