community.general.pickle cache – Pickle formatted files.

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.

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

Synopsis

  • This cache uses Python’s pickle serialization format, in per host files, saved to the filesystem.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

_prefix

string

User defined prefix to use when creating the files

Configuration:

_timeout

float

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

Default: 86400.0

Configuration:

_uri

path / required

Path in which the cache plugin will save the files

Configuration:

Authors

  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)

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.