Ansible role which installs and configures PostgreSQL, extensions, databases and users.
Installation
This has been tested on Ansible 1.9.4 and higher.
To install:
ansible-galaxy install ANXS.postgresql
Dependencies
- ANXS.monit (Galaxy/GH) if you want monit protection (in that case, you should set
monit_protection: true
)
Variables
# Basic settings
postgresql_version: 9.3
postgresql_encoding: 'UTF-8'
postgresql_locale: 'en_US.UTF-8'
postgresql_admin_user: "postgres"
postgresql_default_auth_method: "trust"
postgresql_cluster_name: "main"
postgresql_cluster_reset: false
# List of databases to be created (optional)
# Note: for more flexibility with extensions use the postgresql_database_extensions setting.
postgresql_databases:
- name: foobar
owner: baz # optional; specify the owner of the database
hstore: yes # flag to install the hstore extension on this database (yes/no)
uuid_ossp: yes # flag to install the uuid-ossp extension on this database (yes/no)
citext: yes # flag to install the citext extension on this database (yes/no)
# List of database extensions to be created (optional)
postgresql_database_extensions:
- db: foobar
extensions:
- hstore
- citext
# List of users to be created (optional)
postgresql_users:
- name: baz
pass: pass
encrypted: no # denotes if the password is already encrypted.
# List of user privileges to be applied (optional)
postgresql_user_privileges:
- name: baz # user name
db: foobar # database
priv: "ALL" # privilege string format: example: INSERT,UPDATE/table:SELECT/anothertable:ALL
role_attr_flags: "CREATEDB" # role attribute flags
There's a lot more knobs and bolts to set, which you can find in the defaults/main.yml
Testing
This project comes with a Vagrantfile, this is a fast and easy way to test changes to the role, fire it up with vagrant up
See vagrant docs for getting setup with vagrant
Once your VM is up, you can reprovision it using either vagrant provision
, or ansible-playbook tests/playbook.yml -i vagrant-inventory
If you want to toy with the test play, see tests/playbook.yml, and change the variables in tests/vars.yml
If you are contributing, please first test your changes within the vagrant environment, (using the targeted distribution), and if possible, ensure your change is covered in the tests found in .travis.yml
License
Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Thanks
To the contributors:
Feedback, bug-reports, requests, ...
Are welcome!