Ansible Role: MySQL

Installs MySQL server on RHEL/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu servers.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see vars/main.yml):

mysql_user_home: /root

The home directory inside which Python MySQL settings will be stored, which Ansible will use when connecting to MySQL. This should be the home directory of the user which runs this Ansible role.

mysql_root_password: root

The MySQL root user account password.

mysql_packages:
  - mysql
  - mysql-server
  - MySQL-python

(OS-specific, RedHat/CentOS defaults listed here) Packages to be installed. In some situations, you may need to add additional packages, like mysql-devel.

mysql_enablerepo: ""

(RedHat/CentOS only) If you have enabled any additional repositories (might I suggest geerlingguy.repo-epel or geerlingguy.repo-remi), those repositories can be listed under this variable (e.g. remi,epel). This can be handy, as an example, if you want to install later versions of MySQL.

mysql_port: "3306"
mysql_datadir: /var/lib/mysql
mysql_socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Default MySQL connection configuration.

mysql_key_buffer_size: "256M"
mysql_max_allowed_packet: "1M"
mysql_table_open_cache: "256"
[...]

The rest of the settings in defaults/main.yml control MySQL's memory usage. The default values are tuned for a server where MySQL can consume ~512 MB RAM, so you should consider adjusting them to suit your particular server better.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: db-servers
  vars_files:
    - vars/main.yml
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.mysql }

Inside vars/main.yml:

mysql_root_password: super-secure-password

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.