Ansible Role: Memcached

An Ansible Role that installs Memcached on RedHat/CentOS Linux.

Requirements

None.

Installation

Role support installation in both versions of packages: .rpm and .deb . To install Memcached from package manager (yum or apt) modify variable:

memcached_use_pkg_mgr: true

If variable is set to false ansible role will download .rpm or .deb package from given url and install from it.

memcached_pkg_src_url:

Role Variables

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

memcached_user: memcached

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: ""

Normally memcached does not log anything. Change to "-v" to enable logging or to "-vv" for debug logging.

Optional

• run_mode: One of Deploy, Stop, Install, Start, or Use. The default is Deploy which will do Install, Configure, then Start.
• memcached_configure_network: Configure Firewalld and Iptables (default: True).
• memcached_iptables_nodes: List of ip addresss that will have access do Memcached.

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.