Dell NativeEdge: How to solve deployment error "Failed to download blueprint directory from endpoint."

During the deployment, you may encounter the following errors in the log:

error    nativeedge_log    Failed to download blueprint directory from endpoint. Falling back to rest request.

nativeedge_event    Task failed 'ne_ansible.tasks.run' -> [Errno 17] Output file 'name_ofthe_blueprint.zip' already exists: 'name_ofthe_blueprint.zip' [retry 2/60]

The reason behind this error is that the Ansible plugin is unable to compare its contents with what was already uploaded to the internals of EdgeOrchestrator. When the plugin tries to upload it once again (for example, having a second Ansible node_template inside this blueprint), it fails with this error.

The issue in the NativeEdge Ansible plugin is already logged for version 2.2.0.0 and fixed in the next releases starting from 3.0.0.0.

To fix that, go to your working directory with the source code for a blueprint, or download the blueprint from Edge Orchestrator and extract it.

Navigate to go to the directory with the blueprint, using any terminal in Linux or Powershell for Windows.

For Linux run following command:

find /path/to/directory -type f -empty

For Windows run the following command:

Get-ChildItem -Path . -File -Recurse | Where-Object { $_.Length -eq 0 } | ForEach-Object {
    # Output the full path of the empty file
    $_.FullName
}

The output should provide you with list of empty files inside the blueprint.

Remove the empty files in any way that you like.

Rezip the blueprint and verify that the problem is solved.