community.mongodb.mongodb_role module – Adds or removes a role from a MongoDB database

Note

This module is part of the community.mongodb collection (version 1.6.0).

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.mongodb. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

New in community.mongodb 1.5.0

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • pymongo

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

atlas_auth

boolean

Authentication path intended for MongoDB Atlas Instances

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

auth_mechanism

string

Authentication type.

Choices:

  • "SCRAM-SHA-256"

  • "SCRAM-SHA-1"

  • "MONGODB-X509"

  • "GSSAPI"

  • "PLAIN"

authenticationRestrictions

list / elements=any

The authentication restrictions the server enforces on the role. Specifies a list of IP addresses and CIDR ranges users granted this role are allowed to connect to and/or which they can connect from. Provide a list of dictionaries with the following fields: clientSource (list), serverAddress (list). Provide an empty list if you don’t want to use the field.

Default: []

connection_options

list / elements=any

Additional connection options.

Supply as a list of dicts or strings containing key value pairs seperated with ‘=’.

database

aliases: db

string / required

The name of the database to add/remove the role from.

debug

boolean

Enable extra debugging output.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

login_database

string

The database where login credentials are stored.

Default: "admin"

login_host

string

The host running MongoDB instance to login to.

Default: "localhost"

login_password

string

The password used to authenticate with.

Required when login_user is specified.

login_port

integer

The MongoDB server port to login to.

Default: 27017

login_user

string

The MongoDB user to login with.

Required when login_password is specified.

name

aliases: user

string / required

The name of the role to add or remove.

privileges

list / elements=any

The privileges to grant the role. A privilege consists of a resource and permitted actions.

Default: []

replica_set

string

Replica set to connect to (automatically connects to primary for writes).

roles

list / elements=any

The database user roles should be provided as a dictionary with the db and role keys.

Default: []

ssl

aliases: tls

boolean

Whether to use an SSL connection when connecting to the database.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

ssl_ca_certs

aliases: tlsCAFile

string

The ssl_ca_certs option takes a path to a CA file.

ssl_cert_reqs

aliases: tlsAllowInvalidCertificates

string

Specifies whether a certificate is required from the other side of the connection, and whether it will be validated if provided.

Choices:

  • "CERT_NONE"

  • "CERT_OPTIONAL"

  • "CERT_REQUIRED" ← (default)

ssl_certfile

aliases: tlsCertificateKeyFile

string

Present a client certificate using the ssl_certfile option.

ssl_crlfile

string

The ssl_crlfile option takes a path to a CRL file.

ssl_keyfile

string

Private key for the client certificate.

ssl_pem_passphrase

aliases: tlsCertificateKeyFilePassword

string

Passphrase to decrypt encrypted private keys.

state

string

The database user state.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

strict_compatibility

boolean

Enforce strict requirements for pymongo and MongoDB software versions

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Create sales role
  community.mongodb.mongodb_role:
    name: sales
    database: salesdb
    privileges:
      - resource:
          db: salesdb
          collection: ""
        actions:
          - find
    state: present

- name: Create ClusterAdmin Role
  community.mongodb.mongodb_role:
    name: myClusterwideAdmin
    database: admin
    privileges:
      - resource:
          cluster: true
        actions:
          - addShard
      - resource:
          db: config
          collection: ""
        actions:
          - find
          - update
          - insert
          - remove
      - resource:
          db: "users"
          collection: "usersCollection"
        actions:
          - update
          - insert
          - remove
      - resource:
          db: ""
          collection: ""
        actions:
          - find
    roles:
      - role: "read"
        db: "admin"
    state: present

- name: Create ClusterAdmin Role with a login only from 127.0.0.1 restriction
  community.mongodb.mongodb_role:
    name: myClusterwideAdmin
    database: admin
    privileges:
      - resource:
          cluster: true
        actions:
          - addShard
      - resource:
          db: config
          collection: ""
        actions:
          - find
          - update
          - insert
      - resource:
          db: "users"
          collection: "usersCollection"
        actions:
          - update
          - insert
          - remove
      - resource:
          db: ""
          collection: ""
        actions:
          - find
    roles:
      - role: "read"
        db: "admin"
      - role: "read"
        db: "mynewdb"
    authenticationRestrictions:
      - clientSource:
          - "127.0.0.1"
        serverAddress: []
    state: present

- name: Delete sales role
  community.mongodb.mongodb_role:
    name: sales
    database: "salesdb"
    state: absent

- name: Delete myClusterwideAdmin role
  community.mongodb.mongodb_role:
    name: myClusterwideAdmin
    database: admin
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

user

string

The name of the role to add or remove.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Rhys Campbell (@rhysmeister)