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mysql_variables - Manage MySQL global variables

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis

  • Query / Set MySQL variables

Options

parameter required default choices comments
config_file
(added in 2.0)
 no ~/.my.cnf
Specify a config file from which user and password are to be read.
connect_timeout
(added in 2.1)
 no 30
The connection timeout when connecting to the MySQL server.
login_host
 no localhost
Host running the database.
login_password
 no
The password used to authenticate with.
login_port
 no 3306
Port of the MySQL server. Requires login_host be defined as other then localhost if login_port is used.
login_unix_socket
 no
The path to a Unix domain socket for local connections.
login_user
 no
The username used to authenticate with.
ssl_ca
(added in 2.0)
 no
The path to a Certificate Authority (CA) certificate. This option, if used, must specify the same certificate as used by the server.
ssl_cert
(added in 2.0)
 no
The path to a client public key certificate.
ssl_key
(added in 2.0)
 no
The path to the client private key.
value
 no
If set, then sets variable value to this
variable
 yes
Variable name to operate

Examples

# Check for sync_binlog setting
- mysql_variables:
    variable: sync_binlog

# Set read_only variable to 1
- mysql_variables:
    variable: read_only
    value: 1

Notes

Note

  • Requires the MySQLdb Python package on the remote host. For Ubuntu, this is as easy as apt-get install python-mysqldb. (See apt.) For CentOS/Fedora, this is as easy as yum install MySQL-python. (See yum.)
  • Both login_password and login_user are required when you are passing credentials. If none are present, the module will attempt to read the credentials from ~/.my.cnf, and finally fall back to using the MySQL default login of ‘root’ with no password.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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