community.mongodb.mongodb cache – Use MongoDB for caching

Note

This cache plugin is part of the community.mongodb collection (version 1.4.1).

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.mongodb.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.mongodb.mongodb.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.mongodb

Synopsis

  • This cache uses per host records saved in MongoDB.

Requirements

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

  • pymongo>=3

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

_prefix

string

User defined prefix to use when creating the DB entries

Default: “ansible_facts”

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
fact_caching_prefix = ansible_facts

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX

_timeout

integer

Expiration timeout in seconds for the cache plugin data. Set to 0 to never expire

Default: 86400

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
fact_caching_timeout = 86400

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT

_uri

string

MongoDB Connection String URI

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [defaults]
fact_caching_connection = None

  • Environment variable: ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION

Authors

  • Matt Martz (@sivel)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.