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

For ansible 1.3+ :

- name: ensure mysql local root password is zwx123
  mysql_user: check_implicit_admin=True login_user=root login_password="zwx123" name=root password="zwx123" state=present