Installing MariaDB .deb Files with Ansible
This page refers to the operations described in Installing MariaDB .deb Files. Refer to that page for a complete list and explanation of the tasks that should be performed.
Here we discuss how to automate such tasks using Ansible. For example, here we show how to install a package or how to import a GPG key; but for an updated list of the necessary packages and for the keyserver to use, you should refer to Installing MariaDB .deb Files.
Adding apt Repositories
To add a repository:
- name: Add specified repository into sources list
ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
repo: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,ppc64el] http://sfo1.mirrors.digitalocean.com/mariadb/repo/10.3/ubuntu bionic main
state: present
If you prefer to keep the repository information in a source list file in the Ansible repository, you can upload that file to the target hosts in this way:
- name: Create a symbolic link
ansible.builtin.file:
src: ./file/mariadb.list
dest: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
owner: root
group: root
mod: 644
state: file
Updating the Repository Cache
Both the Ansible modules ansible.builtin.apt and ansible.builtin.apt_repository have an update_cache attribute. In ansible.builtin.apt it is set to "no" by default. Whenever a task sets it to 'yes', apt-get update is run on the target system. You have three ways to make sure that repositories are updated.
The first is to use ansible.builtin.apt_repository to add the desired repository, as shown above. So you only need to worry about updating repositories if you use the file method.
The second is to make sure that update_cache is set to 'yes' when you install a repository:
- name: Install foo 1.0
apt:
name: foo=1.0
update_cache: yes
But if you run certain tasks conditionally, this option may not be very convenient. So the third option is to update the repository cache explicitly as a separate task:
- name: Update repositories
apt:
- update_cache: yes
Importing MariaDB GPG Key
TO-DO
Installing Packages
TO-DO
