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influxdb_user - Manage InfluxDB users

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • Manage InfluxDB users

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 2.6
  • influxdb >= 0.9

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
admin
    Choices:
  • yes
  • no ←
Default:
no
Whether the user should be in the admin role or not.
hostname
Default:
localhost
The hostname or IP address on which InfluxDB server is listening.
Since version 2.5, defaulted to localhost.
password
Default:
root
Password that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server.
Alias login_password added in version 2.5.

aliases: login_password
port
Default:
8086
The port on which InfluxDB server is listening
proxies
(added in 2.5)
HTTP(S) proxy to use for Requests to connect to InfluxDB server.
retries
(added in 2.5)
Default:
3
Number of retries client will try before aborting.
0 indicates try until success.
ssl
(added in 2.5)
Use https instead of http to connect to InfluxDB server.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
State of the user.
timeout
(added in 2.5)
Number of seconds Requests will wait for client to establish a connection.
udp_port
(added in 2.5)
Default:
4444
UDP port to connect to InfluxDB server.
use_udp
(added in 2.5)
Use UDP to connect to InfluxDB server.
user_name
required
Name of the user.
user_password
Password to be set for the user.
username
Default:
root
Username that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server.
Alias login_username added in version 2.5.

aliases: login_username
validate_certs
(added in 2.5)
Default:
yes
If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Create a user on localhost using default login credentials
  influxdb_user:
    user_name: john
    user_password: s3cr3t

- name: Create a user on localhost using custom login credentials
  influxdb_user:
    user_name: john
    user_password: s3cr3t
    login_username: "{{ influxdb_username }}"
    login_password: "{{ influxdb_password }}"

- name: Create an admin user on a remote host using custom login credentials
  influxdb_user:
    user_name: john
    user_password: s3cr3t
    admin: yes
    hostname: "{{ influxdb_hostname }}"
    login_username: "{{ influxdb_username }}"
    login_password: "{{ influxdb_password }}"

- name: Destroy a user using custom login credentials
  influxdb_user:
    user_name: john
    login_username: "{{ influxdb_username }}"
    login_password: "{{ influxdb_password }}"
    state: absent

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Vitaliy Zhhuta (@zhhuta)

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