community.proxysql.proxysql_manage_config – Writes the proxysql configuration settings between layers

Note

This plugin is part of the community.proxysql collection (version 1.3.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.proxysql.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.proxysql.proxysql_manage_config.

Synopsis

  • The community.proxysql.proxysql_global_variables module writes the proxysql configuration settings between layers. Currently this module will always report a changed state, so should typically be used with WHEN however this will change in a future version when the CHECKSUM table commands are available for all tables in proxysql.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • PyMySQL

  • mysqlclient

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

action

string / required

The supplied action combines with the supplied direction to provide the semantics of how we want to move the config_settings between the config_layers.

Choices:

  • LOAD

  • SAVE

config_file

path

Specify a config file from which login_user and login_password are to be read.

Default: “”

config_layer

string / required

RUNTIME - represents the in-memory data structures of ProxySQL used by the threads that are handling the requests. MEMORY - (sometimes also referred as main) represents the in-memory SQLite3 database. DISK - represents the on-disk SQLite3 database. CONFIG - is the classical config file. You can only LOAD FROM the config file.

Choices:

  • MEMORY

  • DISK

  • RUNTIME

  • CONFIG

config_settings

string / required

The config_settings specifies which configuration we’re writing.

Choices:

  • MYSQL USERS

  • MYSQL SERVERS

  • MYSQL QUERY RULES

  • MYSQL VARIABLES

  • ADMIN VARIABLES

  • SCHEDULER

direction

string / required

FROM - denotes we’re reading values FROM the supplied config_layer and writing to the next layer. TO - denotes we’re reading from the previous layer and writing TO the supplied config_layer.”

Choices:

  • FROM

  • TO

login_host

string

The host used to connect to ProxySQL admin interface.

Default: “127.0.0.1”

login_password

string

The password used to authenticate to ProxySQL admin interface.

login_port

integer

The port used to connect to ProxySQL admin interface.

Default: 6032

login_unix_socket

string

The socket used to connect to ProxySQL admin interface.

login_user

string

The username used to authenticate to ProxySQL admin interface.

Notes

Note

  • Supports check_mode.

Examples

---
# This example saves the mysql users config from memory to disk. It uses
# supplied credentials to connect to the proxysql admin interface.

- name: Save the mysql users config from memory to disk
  community.proxysql.proxysql_manage_config:
    login_user: 'admin'
    login_password: 'admin'
    action: "SAVE"
    config_settings: "MYSQL USERS"
    direction: "FROM"
    config_layer: "MEMORY"

# This example loads the mysql query rules config from memory to runtime. It
# uses supplied credentials to connect to the proxysql admin interface.

- name: Load the mysql query rules config from memory to runtime
  community.proxysql.proxysql_manage_config:
    config_file: '~/proxysql.cnf'
    action: "LOAD"
    config_settings: "MYSQL QUERY RULES"
    direction: "TO"
    config_layer: "RUNTIME"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

stdout

dictionary

Simply reports whether the action reported a change.

Returned: Currently the returned value with always be changed=True.

Sample: {“changed”: true}

Authors

  • Ben Mildren (@bmildren)