How to fix Memory error in Ansible?

Question

Now i m trying to copy the file from /Build_Artifacts/build.zip to /Build_Artifacts/. Permission was set to 777 for /Build_Artifacts/.

while running the playbook it reports as Memory error!!

cat deploy.yml

 hosts: "{{host}}" user: soundar tasks:

---

    - name: copying
      copy: src=/Build_Artifacts/build.zip  dest=/Build_Artifacts/

jenkins@ip-10-0-6-189:~$ sudo ansible-playbook /var/lib/jenkins/deploy.yml --extra-vars "host=Resurgence-Dev"

PLAY [Resurgence-Dev] **********************************************************

TASK [setup] *******************************************************************
ok: [10.0.3.233]

TASK [copying] *****************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: MemoryError
fatal: [10.0.3.233]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}
        to retry, use: --limit @/var/lib/jenkins/deploy.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
10.0.3.233                 : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1

Answer 1

Ansible has known memory issues while trying to copy large files. For example.
It loads file into RAM and fails if file is large enough.

Use synchronize module instead. It uses rsync under the hood.