Ansible Role: Memcached

This is an Ansible Role that installs Memcached on RedHat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu Linux.

Requirements

There are no special requirements.

Role Variables

Here are the available variables and their default values (check defaults/main.yml for more details):

• memcached_user: memcache
  This is the user that the Memcached program will run as.

• memcached_port: 11211

• memcached_listen_ip: 127.0.0.1
  These are the port and IP address (127.0.0.1 means it only listens on the local machine) where Memcached will accept requests.

• memcached_threads: 4
  This is the number of threads that Memcached will use to handle requests.

• memcached_memory_limit: 64

• memcached_max_item_size: 1m

• memcached_connections: 1024
  These are the limits for Memcached. The maximum memory it can use is 64MB (default), the maximum size of a single item is 1MB, and it can handle up to 1024 simultaneous connections.

• memcached_log_file: /var/log/memcached.log
  This is where the Memcached log files will be saved.

• memcached_log_verbosity: ""
  By default, Memcached does not log anything. Change this to "-v" for normal logging or "-vv" for debug-level logging.

Dependencies

There are no dependencies.

Example Playbook

- hosts: cache
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.memcached }

License

This role is licensed under MIT / BSD.

Author Information

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