rds - create, delete, or modify an Amazon rds instance

• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples
• Return Values
• Notes
  • Status

Synopsis

• Creates, deletes, or modifies rds instances. When creating an instance it can be either a new instance or a read-only replica of an existing instance. This module has a dependency on python-boto >= 2.5. The ‘promote’ command requires boto >= 2.18.0. Certain features such as tags rely on boto.rds2 (boto >= 2.26.0)

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• boto
• python >= 2.6

Options

Examples

# Basic mysql provisioning example
- rds:
    command: create
    instance_name: new-database
    db_engine: MySQL
    size: 10
    instance_type: db.m1.small
    username: mysql_admin
    password: 1nsecure
    tags:
      Environment: testing
      Application: cms

# Create a read-only replica and wait for it to become available
- rds:
    command: replicate
    instance_name: new-database-replica
    source_instance: new_database
    wait: yes
    wait_timeout: 600

# Delete an instance, but create a snapshot before doing so
- rds:
    command: delete
    instance_name: new-database
    snapshot: new_database_snapshot

# Get facts about an instance
- rds:
    command: facts
    instance_name: new-database
  register: new_database_facts

# Rename an instance and wait for the change to take effect
- rds:
    command: modify
    instance_name: new-database
    new_instance_name: renamed-database
    wait: yes

# Reboot an instance and wait for it to become available again
- rds:
    command: reboot
    instance_name: database
    wait: yes

# Restore a Postgres db instance from a snapshot, wait for it to become available again, and
#  then modify it to add your security group. Also, display the new endpoint.
#  Note that the "publicly_accessible" option is allowed here just as it is in the AWS CLI
- local_action:
     module: rds
     command: restore
     snapshot: mypostgres-snapshot
     instance_name: MyNewInstanceName
     region: us-west-2
     zone: us-west-2b
     subnet: default-vpc-xx441xxx
     publicly_accessible: yes
     wait: yes
     wait_timeout: 600
     tags:
         Name: pg1_test_name_tag
  register: rds

- local_action:
     module: rds
     command: modify
     instance_name: MyNewInstanceName
     region: us-west-2
     vpc_security_groups: sg-xxx945xx

- debug:
    msg: "The new db endpoint is {{ rds.instance.endpoint }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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