Ansible for database operations
Database operations not only involve deploying database servers but also counting the day-to-day operations, such as managing databases, tables, database users, permissions or access. Ansible can talk to most of the well-known database services using the appropriate Ansible modules, as shown in the following diagram:
Figure 8.1 – Ansible database automation
Some of the most common database automation use cases are as follows:
- Deploying standalone database servers
- Configure high availability (HA) database clusters
- Creating databases and tables
- Managing user accounts
- Managing permissions
- Managing database and server access
- Backup and restore operations
- Implementing data replication and mirroring
- Automated database failovers
With the help of Ansible database collections and modules, we can automate most of these operations. In the next section, you will learn how to install...
