community.general.memcached – Use memcached DB for cache

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.memcached.

Synopsis

  • This cache uses JSON formatted, per host records saved in memcached.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this cache.

  • memcache (python lib)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_prefix
string
Default:
"ansible_facts"
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_prefix = ansible_facts

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
User defined prefix to use when creating the DB entries
_timeout
integer
Default:
86400
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_timeout = 86400

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT
Expiration timeout in seconds for the cache plugin data. Set to 0 to never expire
_uri
list / elements=string
Default:
["127.0.0.1:11211"]
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_connection = ['127.0.0.1:11211']

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
List of connection information for the memcached DBs

Authors

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