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When I read the docs, I don't see an option to do that. You could download the file first, then apply it.

You could try the following as a workaround; in this example, we're creating a text template, and then using the from_yaml filter to transform this into our desired data structure:

it seems that the GitLab helm chart requires --set parameters and fail with --values

That is an erroneous assumption; what you are running into is that --set splits on . because otherwise providing fully-formed YAML on the command line would be painful

The correct values are using sub-objects where the . occurs:

Using {{ lookup('file', './stuff.json') | string }} will force Ansible to evaluate it as a string without adding quotes.

There are several examples in Using filters to manipulate data that use this filter.

Documentation for the filter can be found in the Jinja2 documentation. The documentation states that the filter will:

Make a string unicode if it isn’t already. That way a markup string is not converted back to unicode.

I'm not particularly sure why this corrects the issue, but it did.

The same difference between shell and command modules applies on the command field of this module. What you trying to do is using shell properties which does not work.

Also, commands in different k8s_exec tasks won't help because, they are not related, so exporting a variable in a first task won't make it available on next tasks, You should put everything on one command.

Yes your guess is true, when you exec into container your command will be executed "inside" pod. In this case you'll be just copying file inside the pod which is not present.

Check out kubectl cp command. This is similar to docker cp command, which is copying file from host to container. You can use ansible command module to execute it.

You're not supposed to do anything special to use the module except installing the needed python dependencies. See: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/k8s_info_module.html

1. remove the line - role: ansible.kubernetes-modules, unless it is a module of yours in which case you have to tell us more because this is not a correct declaration.
2. remove the collection declaration
3. Add the following task somewhere before using the module: