Use gzip everywhere.

playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/deploy.yml

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@
 - name: unzip the data to the data dir
   shell: >
     tar xzf /tmp/{{ EDXAPP_XML_S3_KEY|basename }}
-    chdir="{{ edxapp_course_data_dir }}"
+    chdir="{{ edxapp_data_dir }}"
   when: download_xml_s3.changed
 
 - include: xml.yml

playbooks/roles/edxapp/tasks/xml.yml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
   when: item.disposition == "on disk" or item.disposition == "no static import"
 
 - name: create an archive of course data and course static dirs
-  shell: tar cjf /tmp/static_course_content.tar.bz2 -C {{ edxapp_data_dir }} {{ edxapp_course_data_dir|basename }} {{ edxapp_course_static_dir|basename }}
+  shell: tar czf /tmp/static_course_content.tar.gz -C {{ edxapp_data_dir }} {{ edxapp_course_data_dir|basename }} {{ edxapp_course_static_dir|basename }}
 
 - name: upload archive to s3
   s3: >
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@
     object="{{ EDXAPP_XML_S3_KEY }}"
     mode=put
     overwrite=True
-    src="/tmp/static_course_content.tar.bz2"
+    src="/tmp/static_course_content.tar.gz"
   when: EDXAPP_XML_S3_BUCKET and EDXAPP_XML_S3_KEY
 
 - name: remove archive from disk
-  file: path="/tmp/static_course_content.tar.bz2" state=absent
+  file: path="/tmp/static_course_content.tar.gz" state=absent
   when: EDXAPP_XML_S3_BUCKET and EDXAPP_XML_S3_KEY