Ansible module to set values in a mysql table, or insert records. Useful for web-applications that store configurations in database. E.g. icingaweb2 requires the initial user to be inserted into the database. The install-wizard could do it, but with ansible you want to automate installation ;)

Listed at Ansible Galaxy Page as zauberpony.mysql-query.

Install via ansible-galaxy, ansible-galaxy install zauberpony.mysql-query, or manually put the file mysql_query into your roles_path.

python bindings for mysql (just like the core mysql_* modules):

• MySQLdb (Python 2.x only)
• PyMySQL (Python 2.7 and python 3.x)

--- - hosts: all roles: - zauberpony.mysql-query tasks: - name: insert a row mysql_query: name: ansible-playbook-example table: simple_table login_host: ::1 login_user: root login_password: password identifiers: id: 14 email: 'john@example.com' values: role: "admin" department: 'IT' defaults: password: "secret" last_login: 1469264933

Given a table simple_table with columns (id, email, role, department, password, last_login), this example would:

• Look for a row where id = 14 and email = 'john@example.com'
  • if the row does not exist: insert a row with id=14, email='john@example.com', role="admin", department="IT", password="secret", last_login=1469264933
  • if the row does exist: check if the values (role, department) match the given values, if not: update

Thus:

• identifiers are being used to check for existence and to find a row
• defaults are being used as default values if the row is not present (i.e.: only used for insert)
• values are the state of the row that ansible ensures

--- - hosts: all roles: - zauberpony.mysql-query tasks: - name: insert a row mysql_query: state: absent name: ansible-playbook-example table: simple_table login_host: ::1 login_user: root login_password: password identifiers: id: 14 email: 'john@example.com'

Make sure you have a running mysql server (e.g.: use the docker-compose.yml-file) and update the connection-parameters if necessary.

Run via ansible-playbook -i demo.yml (or even simpler ./demo.yml) and undo (to start all over) with ansible-playbook -i reset.yml.

After running ./demo.yml, you can run ./checkmode-demo.yml -C to test ansible's check mode. Just run ./demo.yml and ./checkmode-demo.yml a few times with -C and without -C to get a feel for it.