community.general.memcached cache – Use memcached DB for cache

Note

This cache plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this cache plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.memcached.

Synopsis

  • This cache uses JSON formatted, per host records saved in memcached.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this cache.

  • memcache (python lib)

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

_prefix

string

User defined prefix to use when creating the DB entries

Default: "ansible_facts"

Configuration:

_timeout

integer

Expiration timeout in seconds for the cache plugin data. Set to 0 to never expire

Default: 86400

Configuration:

_uri

list / elements=string

List of connection information for the memcached DBs

Default: ["127.0.0.1:11211"]

Configuration:

Authors

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Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.