Ansible – Store N recent directories and artifacts

Goal:

There is a directory “/opt/application” where the archive with the application is downloaded and unpacked into a directory where the short derivative of the HASH commit (8 characters) is used as the name. And a symbolic link is created to this directory. It is necessary to store only the 3 latest versions of the application, both directories, and archives, and also do not delete directories called:

• logs
• media

Also, the deletion should be done using regex, so that in the future it does not delete directories that may be created.

Playbook:

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Find all application directories
      find:
        paths: "/opt/application/"
        file_type: directory
        use_regex: yes
        patterns:
          - '[a-z0-9]{8,8}'
        excludes: 'logs,media'
      register: dirs

    - name: Keep only the last 3 directories
      file:
        path: "{{ item }}"
        state: absent
      with_items: "{{ (dirs.files | sort(attribute='atime', reverse=True))[3:] | map(attribute='path') | list }}"

    - name: Find application artifacts
      find:
        paths: "/opt/application/"
        file_type: file
        use_regex: yes
        patterns:
          - '^[a-z0-9]{8,8}.tar.gz$'
      register: artifacts

    - name: Keep only the last 3 artifacts
      file:
        path: "{{ item }}"
        state: absent
      with_items: "{{ (artifacts.files | sort(attribute='atime', reverse=True))[3:] | map(attribute='path') | list }}"

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