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Looking how to translate (properly) from a bash command (orig inside a Dockerfile) to ansible task/role that will download latest aws-iam-authenticator binary and install into /usr/local/bin on Ubuntu (x64) OS.

currently I have:

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/releases/latest | grep "browser_download.url.*linux_amd64" | cut -d : -f 2,3 | tr -d '"' | wget -O /usr/local/bin/aws-iam-authenticator -qi - && chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/aws-iam-authenticator

Basically you need to write a playbook and separate that command in various tasks

Example example.yml file

- hosts: localhost
 tasks:
 - shell: |
 curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/releases/latest
 register: json
 - set_fact:
 url: " from_json).assets[2].browser_download_url "
 - get_url:
 url: " url "
 dest: /usr/local/bin/aws-iam-authenticator-ansible
 mode: 0555

you can execute it by doing

ansible-playbook --become example.yml

I hope this is what you're looking for ;-)

So after finding other posts that gave strong hints, information and unresolved issues, Ansible - Download latest release binary from Github repo & https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27299#issuecomment-331068246. I was able to come up with the following ansible task that works for me.

 - name: Get latest url for linux-amd64 release for aws-iam-authenticator
 uri:
 url: https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator/releases/latest
 return_content: true
 body_format: json
 register: json_response

 - name: Download and install aws-iam-authenticator
 get_url:
 url: " from_json"
 mode: 555
 dest: /usr/local/bin/aws-iam-authenticator