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Ansible Role - PostgreSQL
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Ansible Role - PostgreSQL
Installs and configures PostgreSQL server on RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu servers.
No special requirements; note that this role requires root access, so either run it in a playbook with a global become: true, or invoke the role in your playbook like:
- hosts: database roles: - role: geerlingguy.postgresql become: true
If you are running this role with ansible-core, install the
community.postgresql collection first so the PostgreSQL modules used by the
role are available.
Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):
postgresql_enablerepo: ""
(RHEL/CentOS only) You can set a repo to use for the PostgreSQL installation by passing it in here.
postgresql_restarted_state: "restarted"
Set the state of the service when configuration changes are made. Recommended values are restarted or reloaded.
postgresql_python_library: python-psycopg2
Library used by Ansible to communicate with PostgreSQL. If you are using Python 3 (e.g. set via ansible_python_interpreter), you should change this to python3-psycopg2.
postgresql_user: postgres postgresql_group: postgres
The user and group under which PostgreSQL will run.
postgresql_unix_socket_directories: - /var/run/postgresql
The directories (usually one, but can be multiple) where PostgreSQL's socket will be created.
postgresql_service_state: started postgresql_service_enabled: true
Control the state of the postgresql service and whether it should start at boot time.
postgresql_global_config_options: - option: unix_socket_directories value: '{{ postgresql_unix_socket_directories | join(",") }}' - option: log_directory value: 'log'
Global configuration options that will be set in postgresql.conf.
For PostgreSQL versions older than 9.3 you need to at least override this variable and set the option to unix_socket_directory.
If you override the value of option: log_directory with another path, relative or absolute, then this role will create it for you.
postgresql_hba_entries: - { type: local, database: all, user: postgres, auth_method: peer } - { type: local, database: all, user: all, auth_method: peer } - { type: host, database: all, user: all, address: '127.0.0.1/32', auth_method: md5 } - { type: host, database: all, user: all, address: '::1/128', auth_method: md5 }
Configure host based authentication entries to be set in the pg_hba.conf. Options for entries include:
type (required)database (required)user (required)address (one of this or the following two are required)ip_addressip_maskauth_method (required)auth_options (optional)If overriding, make sure you copy all of the existing entries from defaults/main.yml if you need to preserve existing entries.
postgresql_locales: - 'en_US.UTF-8'
(Debian/Ubuntu only) Used to generate the locales used by PostgreSQL databases.
postgresql_databases: - name: exampledb # required; the rest are optional lc_collate: # defaults to 'en_US.UTF-8' lc_ctype: # defaults to 'en_US.UTF-8' encoding: # defaults to 'UTF-8' template: # defaults to 'template0' login_host: # defaults to 'localhost' login_password: # defaults to not set login_user: # defaults to 'postgresql_user' login_unix_socket: # defaults to 1st of postgresql_unix_socket_directories port: # defaults to not set owner: # defaults to postgresql_user state: # defaults to 'present'
A list of databases to ensure exist on the server. Only the name is required; all other properties are optional.
postgresql_users: - name: jdoe #required; the rest are optional password: # defaults to not set encrypted: # defaults to not set role_attr_flags: # defaults to not set db: # defaults to not set login_host: # defaults to 'localhost' login_password: # defaults to not set login_user: # defaults to '{{ postgresql_user }}' login_unix_socket: # defaults to 1st of postgresql_unix_socket_directories port: # defaults to not set state: # defaults to 'present'
A list of users to ensure exist on the server. Only the name is required; all other properties are optional.
postgresql_privs: - db: exampledb # database (required) roles: jdoe # role(s) the privs apply to (required) privs: # comma separated list of privileges - defaults to not set type: # type of database object to set privileges on - defaults to not set objs: # list of database objects to set privileges on - defaults to not set schema: # defaults to not set session_role: # defaults to not set fail_on_role: # defaults to true grant_option: # defaults to not set target_roles: # defaults to not set login_host: # defaults to 'localhost' login_password: # defaults to not set login_user: # defaults to '{{ postgresql_user }}' login_unix_socket: # defaults to 1st of postgresql_unix_socket_directories port: # defaults to not set state: # defaults to 'present'
A list of privileges to configure (new in role version 4.0.0).
postgres_users_no_log: true
Whether to output user data (which may contain sensitive information, like passwords) when managing users.
postgresql_version: [OS-specific] postgresql_data_dir: [OS-specific] postgresql_bin_path: [OS-specific] postgresql_config_path: [OS-specific] postgresql_daemon: [OS-specific] postgresql_packages: [OS-specific]
OS-specific variables that are set by include files in this role's vars directory. These shouldn't be overridden unless you're using a version of PostgreSQL that wasn't installed using system packages.
None.
- hosts: database become: yes vars_files: - vars/main.yml roles: - geerlingguy.postgresql
Inside vars/main.yml:
postgresql_databases: - name: example_db postgresql_users: - name: example_user password: supersecure
MIT / BSD
This role was created in 2016 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.