Ansible idempotent MySQL installation Playbook

Question

I want to setup a MySQL server on AWS, using Ansible for the configuration management. I am using the default AMI from Amazon (ami-3275ee5b), which uses yum

Answer 1

I posted about this on coderwall, but I'll reproduce dennisjac's improvement in the comments of my original post.

The trick to doing it idempotently is knowing that the mysql_user module will load a ~/.my.cnf file if it finds one.

I first change the password, then copy a .my.cnf file with the password credentials. When you try to run it a second time, the myqsl_user ansible module will find the .my.cnf and use the new password.

- hosts: staging_mysql
  user: ec2-user
  sudo: yes

  tasks:
    - name: Install MySQL
      action: yum name={{ item }}
      with_items:
        - MySQL-python
        - mysql
        - mysql-server

    - name: Start the MySQL service
      action: service name=mysqld state=started

    # 'localhost' needs to be the last item for idempotency, see
    # http://ansible.cc/docs/modules.html#mysql-user
    - name: update mysql root password for all root accounts
      mysql_user: name=root host={{ item }} password={{ mysql_root_password }} priv=*.*:ALL,GRANT
      with_items:
        - "{{ ansible_hostname }}"
        - 127.0.0.1
        - ::1
        - localhost

    - name: copy .my.cnf file with root password credentials
      template: src=templates/root/.my.cnf dest=/root/.my.cnf owner=root mode=0600

The .my.cnf template looks like this:

[client]
user=root
password={{ mysql_root_password }}

Edit: Added privileges as recommended by Dhananjay Nene in the comments, and changed variable interpolation to use braces instead of dollar sign.