community.mongodb.mongodb_index – Creates or drops indexes on MongoDB collections.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.mongodb collection (version 1.3.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.mongodb.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.mongodb.mongodb_index.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.mongodb

Synopsis

Creates or drops indexes on MongoDB collections.
Supports multiple index options, i.e. unique, sparse and partial.
Validates existence of indexes by name only.

Requirements

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

pymongo

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_mechanism string	Choices: SCRAM-SHA-256 SCRAM-SHA-1 MONGODB-X509 GSSAPI PLAIN	Authentication type.
connection_options list / elements=raw		Additional connection options. Supply as a list of dicts or strings containing key value pairs seperated with '='.
indexes list / elements=raw / required		List of indexes to create or drop
login_database string	Default: "admin"	The database where login credentials are stored.
login_host string	Default: "localhost"	The host running MongoDB instance to login to.
login_password string		The password used to authenticate with. Required when login_user is specified.
login_port integer	Default: 27017	The MongoDB server port to login to.
login_user string		The MongoDB user to login with. Required when login_password is specified.
replica_set string		Replica set to connect to (automatically connects to primary for writes).
ssl boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether to use an SSL connection when connecting to the database.
ssl_ca_certs string		The ssl_ca_certs option takes a path to a CA file.
ssl_cert_reqs string	Choices: CERT_NONE CERT_OPTIONAL CERT_REQUIRED ←	Specifies whether a certificate is required from the other side of the connection, and whether it will be validated if provided.
ssl_certfile string		Present a client certificate using the ssl_certfile option.
ssl_crlfile string		The ssl_crlfile option takes a path to a CRL file.
ssl_keyfile string		Private key for the client certificate.
ssl_pem_passphrase string		Passphrase to decrypt encrypted private keys.

Notes

Note

Requires the pymongo Python package on the remote host, version 2.4.2+.

Examples

- name: Create a single index on a collection
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    indexes:
      - database: mydb
        collection: test
        keys:
          - username: 1
            last_login: -1
        options:
          name: myindex
        state: present

- name: Drop an index on a collection
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    indexes:
      - database: mydb
        collection: test
        options:
          name: myindex
        state: absent

- name: Create multiple indexes
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    indexes:
      - database: mydb
        collection: test
        keys:
          - username: 1
            last_login: -1
        options:
          name: myindex
        state: present
      - database: mydb
        collection: test
        keys:
          - email: 1
            last_login: -1
        options:
          name: myindex2
        state: present

- name: Add a unique index
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_port: 27017
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    login_database: "admin"
    indexes:
      - database: "test"
        collection: "rhys"
        keys:
          username: 1
        options:
          name: myuniqueindex
          unique: true
        state: present

- name: Add a ttl index
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_port: 27017
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    login_database: "admin"
    indexes:
      - database: "test"
        collection: "rhys"
        keys:
          created: 1
        options:
          name: myttlindex
          expireAfterSeconds: 3600
        state: present

- name: Add a sparse index
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_port: 27017
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    login_database: "admin"
    indexes:
      - database: "test"
        collection: "rhys"
        keys:
          last_login: -1
        options:
          name: mysparseindex
          sparse: true
        state: present

- name: Add a partial index
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_port: 27017
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    login_database: "admin"
    indexes:
      - database: "test"
        collection: "rhys"
        keys:
          last_login: -1
        options:
          name: mypartialindex
          partialFilterExpression:
            rating:
              $gt: 5
        state: present

- name: Add a index in the background (background option is deprecated from 4.2+)
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_port: 27017
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    login_database: "admin"
    indexes:
      - database: "test"
        collection: "rhys"
        options:
          name: idxbackground
        keys:
          username: -1
        backgroud: true
        state: present

- name: Check creating 5 index all with multiple options specified
  community.mongodb.mongodb_index:
    login_port: 27017
    login_user: admin
    login_password: secret
    login_database: "admin"
    indexes:
      - database: "test"
        collection: "indextest"
        options:
          name: "idx_unq_username"
          unique: true
        keys:
          username: -1
        state: present
      - database: "test"
        collection: "indextest"
        options:
          name: "idx_last_login"
          sparse: true
        keys:
          last_login: -1
        state: present
      - database: "test"
        collection: "indextest"
        options:
          name: "myindex"
        keys:
          first_name: 1
          last_name: -1
          city: 1
        state: present
      - database: "test"
        collection: partialtest
        options:
          name: "idx_partialtest"
          partialFilterExpression:
            rating:
              $gt: 5
        keys:
          rating: -1
          title: 1
        state: present
      - database: "test"
        collection: "wideindex"
        options:
          name: "mywideindex"
        keys:
          email: -1
          username: 1
          first_name: 1
          last_name: 1
          dob: -1
          city: 1
          last_login: -1
          review_count: 1
          rating_count: 1
          last_post: -1
        state: present

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
changed boolean	When the module has changed something.	Indicates the module has changed something.
failed boolean	When the module has encountered an error.	Indicates the module has failed.
indexes_created list / elements=string	always	List of indexes created. Sample: ['myindex', 'myindex2']
indexes_dropped list / elements=string	always	List of indexes dropped. Sample: ['myindex', 'myindex2']

Authors

Rhys Campbell (@rhysmeister)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/mongodb/mongodb_index_module.html

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