community.general.redis – Use Redis DB for cache

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.redis.

Synopsis

  • This cache uses JSON formatted, per host records saved in Redis.

Requirements

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

  • redis>=2.4.5 (python lib)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_keyset_name
string
added in 1.3.0 of community.general
Default:
"ansible_cache_keys"
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_redis_keyset_name = ansible_cache_keys

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_REDIS_KEYSET_NAME
User defined name for cache keyset name.
_prefix
string
Default:
"ansible_facts"
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_prefix = ansible_facts

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX
User defined prefix to use when creating the DB entries
_sentinel_service_name
string
added in 1.3.0 of community.general
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_redis_sentinel = None

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_REDIS_SENTINEL
The redis sentinel service name (or referenced as cluster name).
_timeout
integer
Default:
86400
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_timeout = 86400

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT
Expiration timeout in seconds for the cache plugin data. Set to 0 to never expire
_uri
string / required
ini entries:

[defaults]
fact_caching_connection = None

env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION
A colon separated string of connection information for Redis.
The format is host:port:db:password, for example localhost:6379:0:changeme.
To use encryption in transit, prefix the connection with tls://, as in tls://localhost:6379:0:changeme.
To use redis sentinel, use separator ;, for example localhost:26379;localhost:26379;0:changeme. Requires redis>=2.9.0.

Authors

  • Unknown (!UNKNOWN)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/redis_cache.html