community.general.redis – fetch data from Redis

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 lookup returns a list of results from a Redis 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.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_terms
string
list of keys to query
host
string
Default:
"127.0.0.1"
ini entries:

[lookup_redis]
host = 127.0.0.1

env:ANSIBLE_REDIS_HOST
location of Redis host
port
integer
Default:
6379
ini entries:

[lookup_redis]
port = 6379

env:ANSIBLE_REDIS_PORT
port on which Redis is listening on
socket
path
ini entries:

[lookup_redis]
socket = None

env:ANSIBLE_REDIS_SOCKET
path to socket on which to query Redis, this option overrides host and port options when set.

Examples

- name: query redis for somekey (default or configured settings used)
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.redis', 'somekey') }}"

- name: query redis for list of keys and non-default host and port
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.redis', item, host='myredis.internal.com', port=2121) }}"
  loop: '{{list_of_redis_keys}}'

- name: use list directly
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.redis', 'key1', 'key2', 'key3') }}"

- name: use list directly with a socket
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.redis', 'key1', 'key2', socket='/var/tmp/redis.sock') }}"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
_raw
list / elements=string
success
value(s) stored in Redis


Authors

  • Jan-Piet Mens (@jpmens) <jpmens(at)gmail.com>
  • Ansible Core Team

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/redis_lookup.html