File items

Manage regular files.

files = {
    "/path/to/file": {
        "mode": "0644",
        "owner": "root",
        "group": "root",
        "content_type": "mako",
        "encoding": "utf-8",
        "source": "my_template",
    },
}

Attribute reference

See also: The list of generic builtin item attributes

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content

May be used instead of source to provide file content without a template file.

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content_type

How the file pointed to by source or the string given to content should be interpreted.

Value	Effect
any	only cares about file owner, group, and mode
base64	content is decoded from base64
binary	file is uploaded verbatim, no content processing occurs
jinja2	content is interpreted by the Jinja2 template engine
mako	content is interpreted by the Mako template engine
text (default)	like binary, but will be diffed in interactive mode

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context

Only used with Mako and Jinja2 templates. The values of this dictionary will be available from within the template as variables named after the respective keys.

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delete

When set to True, the path of this file will be removed. It doesn't matter if there is not a file but a directory or something else at this path. When using delete, no other attributes are allowed.

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encoding

Encoding of the target file. Note that this applies to the remote file only, your template is still conveniently written in UTF-8 and will be converted by BundleWrap. Defaults to "utf-8". Other possible values (e.g. "latin-1") can be found here.

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group

Name of the group this file belongs to. Defaults to 'root'. Set to None if you don't want BundleWrap to change whatever is set on the node.

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mode

File mode as returned by stat -c %a <file>. Defaults to 644. Set to None if you don't want BundleWrap to change whatever is set on the node.

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owner

Username of the file's owner. Defaults to 'root'. Set to None if you don't want BundleWrap to change whatever is set on the node.

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source

File name of the file template. If this says my_template, BundleWrap will look in data/my_bundle/files/my_template and then bundles/my_bundle/files/my_template. Most of the time, you will want to put config templates into the latter directory. The data/ subdirectory is meant for files that are very specific to your infrastructure (e.g. DNS zone files). This separation allows you to write your bundles in a generic way so that they could be open-sourced and shared with other people. Defaults to the filename of this item (e.g. foo.conf when this item is /etc/foo.conf).

See also: Writing file templates

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verify_with

This can be used to run external validation commands on a file before it is applied to a node. The file is verified locally on the machine running BundleWrap. Verification is considered successful when the exit code of the verification command is 0. Use {} as a placeholder for the shell-quoted path to the temporary file. Here is an example for verifying sudoers files:

visudo -cf {}

Keep in mind that all team members will have to have the verification command installed on their machines.