Ansible: How to change active directory in Ansible Playbook?

- name: Go to the folder
command: chdir=/opt/tools/temp

When I run my playbook, I get:

TASK: [Go to the folder] *****************************
failed: [host] => {"failed": true, "rc": 256}
msg: no command given

Any help is much appreciated.

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There's no concept of current directory in Ansible. You can specify current directory for specific task, like you did in your playbook. The only missing part was the actual command to execute. Try this:

- name: Go to the folder and execute command
command: chdir=/opt/tools/temp ls

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If you need a login console (like for bundler), then you have to do the command like this.

command: bash -lc "cd /path/to/folder && bundle install"

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This question was in the results for when I was trying to figure out why 'shell' was not respecting my chdir entries when I had to revert to Ansible 1.9. So I will be posting my solution.

I had

- name: task name
shell:
cmd: touch foobar
creates: foobar
chdir: /usr/lib/foobar

It worked with Ansible > 2, but for 1.9 I had to change it to.

- name: task name
shell: touch foobar
args:
creates: foobar
chdir: /usr/lib/foobar

Just wanted to share.

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You can change into a directory before running a command with ansible with chdir.

Here's an example I just setup:

- name: Run a pipenv install
environment:
LANG: "en_GB.UTF-8"
command: "pipenv install --dev"
args:
chdir: "\{\{ dir }}/proj"