ansible.builtin.mongodb (v2.9.27) — lookup

lookup info from MongoDB

| "added in version" 2.3 of ansible.builtin"

Authors: Marcos Diez <marcos (at) unitron.com.br>

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.27

Description

The ``MongoDB`` lookup runs the *find()* command on a given *collection* on a given *MongoDB* server.

The result is a list of jsons, so slightly different from what PyMongo returns. In particular, *timestamps* are converted to epoch integers.


Requirements

Usage examples

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- hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    mongodb_parameters:
      #mandatory parameters
      database: 'local'
      #optional
      collection: "startup_log"
      connection_string: "mongodb://localhost/"
      extra_connection_parameters: { "ssl" : True , "ssl_certfile": /etc/self_signed_certificate.pem" }
      #optional query  parameters, we accept any parameter from the normal mongodb query.
      filter:  { "hostname": "batman" }
      projection: { "pid": True    , "_id" : False , "hostname" : True }
      skip: 0
      limit: 1
      sort:  [ [ "startTime" , "ASCENDING" ] , [ "age", "DESCENDING" ] ]
  tasks:
    - debug: msg="Mongo has already started with the following PID [{{ item.pid }}]"
      with_mongodb: "{{mongodb_parameters}}"

Inputs

    
skip:
    description:
    - How many results should be skipped
    type: integer

sort:
    default: '[]'
    description:
    - Sorting rules. Please notice the constats are replaced by strings.
    type: list

limit:
    description:
    - How many results should be shown
    type: integer

filter:
    default: '{}'
    description:
    - Criteria of the output
    type: dict

database:
    description:
    - Name of the database which the query will be made
    required: true

collection:
    description:
    - Name of the collection which the query will be made
    required: true

projection:
    default: '{}'
    description:
    - Fields you want returned
    type: dict

connect_string:
    default: mongodb://localhost/
    description:
    - Can be any valid MongoDB connection string, supporting authentication, replicasets,
      etc.
    - More info at U(https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/connection-string/)