In this list of mysql db modules for Ansbile, there's one for creating a db, or creating a user, etc.
I would like to run a query against a pre-existing table and use the results of that query to populate an Ansible variable (list of IP addresses, and node type) upon which I would run different tasks, depending on node type.
How can that be done in Ansible?
This is approximately how to do it (but it is untested):
- name: Retrieve stuff from mysql
command: >
mysql --user=alice --password=topsecret dbname
--host=147.102.160.1 --batch --skip-column-names
--execute="SELECT stuff from stuff_table"
register: stuff
check_mode: no
changed_when: False
- name: Do something with stuff
debug: "{{ item }}"
with_items: stuff.stdout_lines
Documented here.