What's the easy way to auto create non existin

Question

In my Ansible playbook many times i need to create file there

 - name: Copy file
   template:
     src: code.conf.j2
     dest: "{{project_root}}/conf/code.conf"

now many times conf dir is not there. Then I have to create more task to create that dir first.

Is there any easy way to auto create dir if don't exist with some option

Answer 1

Right now, this is the only way

- name: Ensures {{project_root}}/conf dir exists
  file: path={{project_root}}/conf state=directory
- name: Copy file
  template:
    src: code.conf.j2
    dest: "{{project_root}}/conf/code.conf"