enix.mongodb

A role for deploying and configuring mongodb and extensions on unix hosts using Ansible.

Requirements

Supported targets:

• Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial"
• Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic"
• Debian 8 "Jessie"
• Debian 9 "Stretch"
• Debian 10 "Buster"

Role Variables

This roles comes preloaded with almost every available default. You can override each one in your hosts/group vars, in your inventory, or in your play. See the annotated defaults in defaults/main.yml for help in configuration. All provided variables start with mongodb__.

• mongodb__version - MongoDB software version to install. This select the stable branch to select for installation. defaults to 4.2. currently available: 3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 4.0, 4.2, 4.4.
• mongodb__apt_localkey - In case of system behind proxy it can be an issue to fetch repo key from keyserver. enabling this will use a local copy. Warning will maybe no longuer work if key is changed on remote repository. defaults to false.
• mongodb__packages - MongoDB packages to install. defaults to mongodb-org which install everything. Can select the following: mongodb-org, mongodb-org-server, mongodb-org-mongos, mongodb-org-shell, mongodb-org-tools. see for details https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/.
• mongodb__conf_port - Port mongod must bind to, defaults to 27017.
• mongodb__conf_bindIp - Ip mongod must bind to, defaults to 127.0.0.1.
• mongodb__conf_extra - Extra configuration options to set in mongod.conf. This must be a yaml configuration block understand by the daemon.

mongodb__conf_extra: |
  net.ipv6: false
  systemLog:
    verbosity: 2
    logRotate: reopen

Dependencies

• None

Usage

Use Ansible galaxy requirements.yml

# mongodb from enix
- src: enix.mongodb

And add it to your play's roles:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: enix.mongodb
        mongodb__version: 4.2
        mongodb__packages: ["mongodb-org-server", "mongodb-org-tools"]

You can also use the role as a playbook. You will be asked which hosts to provision, and you can further configure the play by using --extra-vars.

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory --extra-vars='{...}' main.yml

Still to do

• Add support for clustering
• Add support for sharding
• Allow user and credentials management

Changelog

1.2.0

Add support for debian buster Add support for newer mongodb versions (4.2, 4.4)

1.1.0

Add support for local gnupg key

1.0.0

Initial version.

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Laurent Corbes laurent.corbes@enix.fr - http://www.enix.io