community.general.lmdb_kv lookup – fetch data from LMDB
Note
This lookup plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.4).
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.general
.
You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.lmdb_kv
.
New in community.general 0.2.0
Synopsis
This lookup returns a list of results from an LMDB DB corresponding to a list of items given to it.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.
lmdb (Python library https://lmdb.readthedocs.io/en/release/)
Terms
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
List of keys to query. |
Keyword parameters
This describes keyword parameters of the lookup. These are the values key1=value1
, key2=value2
and so on in the following
examples: lookup('community.general.lmdb_kv', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)
and query('community.general.lmdb_kv', key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)
Parameter |
Comments |
---|---|
Path to LMDB database. Default: Configuration:
|
Notes
Note
When keyword and positional parameters are used together, positional parameters must be listed before keyword parameters:
lookup('community.general.lmdb_kv', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)
andquery('community.general.lmdb_kv', term1, term2, key1=value1, key2=value2)
Examples
- name: query LMDB for a list of country codes
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ query('community.general.lmdb_kv', 'nl', 'be', 'lu', db='jp.mdb') }}"
- name: use list of values in a loop by key wildcard
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "Hello from {{ item.0 }} a.k.a. {{ item.1 }}"
vars:
- lmdb_kv_db: jp.mdb
with_community.general.lmdb_kv:
- "n*"
- name: get an item by key
ansible.builtin.assert:
that:
- item == 'Belgium'
vars:
- lmdb_kv_db: jp.mdb
with_community.general.lmdb_kv:
- be
Return Value
Key |
Description |
---|---|
value(s) stored in LMDB Returned: success |