Ansible Role: Memcached
An Ansible Role that installs Memcached on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu Linux.
Requirements
None.
Role Variables
Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):
memcached_user: memcache
The user under which the Memcached daemon will run.
memcached_port: 11211
memcached_listen_ip: 127.0.0.1
The port and IP address (127.0.0.1 for localhost) on which Memcached will listen for requests.
memcached_memory_limit: 64
memcached_connections: 1024
Memcached limits. The maximum amount of RAM memcached will consume (64MB is the default), and the maximum number of simultaneous connections memcached will handle.
memcached_log_file: /var/log/memcached.log
The location of the memcached log file.
memcached_log_verbosity: ""
The location of the PID file.
memcached_pid: /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid
Normally memcached does not log anything. Change to "-v" to enable logging or to "-vv" for debug logging.
Listening on a socket
By default Memcached listens on an IP and port, however this behaviour can be overwritten by using sockets which allow local services to communicate without a TCP/IP overhead. N.B. this disables network support.
memcached_socket: /var/run/memcached/memcached.sock
memcached_socket_mask: 700
Dependencies
None.
Example Playbook
- hosts: cache
roles:
- { role: geerlingguy.memcached }
License
MIT / BSD
Author Information
This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.