How PUT file into FTP with Ansible?

I have a local file and I need to upload into a remote FTP (not SFTP) server with login.

Please, how could I do that?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

Depending on your use case, infrastructure, capabilities of the remote FTP server, etc., there might be several options.

If you like to use plain File Transfer Protocol (FTP) over TCP/21

A Custom Module like ftp - Transfers files and directories from or to FTP servers

The shell module – Execute shell commands on targets with curl

- name: Transfer file to FTP server
  shell:
    cmd: "curl --silent --user {{ ansible_user }}:{{ ansible_password }} ftp://ftp.example.com -T {{ fileToTransfer }}"
  register: result

If the FTP server software has additionally HTTP server capabilities implemented

The module uri - Interacts with webservices with parameter method: PUT

- name: Upload content
   local_action:
     module: uri
     url: "http://ftp.example.oom"
     method: PUT
     url_username: "{{ ansible_user }}"
     url_password: "{{ ansible_password }}"
     body: "{{ lookup('file', fileToTransfer) }}"
   register: result

... not sure if this would work, haven't tested such setup yet and there is still information missing

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