Ansible Playbook for installation and configuration of mariadb database in Amazon Linux. The Playbook consists of the following directories:

• files
• templates
• defaults
• tasks
• handlers

Sample compressed bzip2 sql script. Script creates tables and loads data into the database. The sample sql script is from this website https://www.sqltutorial.org/sql-sample-database

my-custom.cnf.j2 is MariaDB configuration file. Sample MariaDB option files can be found in /usr/share/mysql directory. You can copy one of the sample MariaDB option files and use it as the basis for building your server's primary MariaDB option file.

All referenced variables are in the main.yml in the defaults directory. Boolean variables are used as a form of control to turn configuration or commands ON/OFF

The files are the tasks ansible will perform:

• config.yml: templates my-custom.cnf.j2 to the server
• dependencies.yml: installs other dependencies required by the OS or application
• initialize.yml: creates and configures the database
• mariadb-install.yml: installs MariaDB
• main.yml: root yml file calls the other tasks to perform depending on the underlying OS
• rhel.yml: installs MariaDB in any redhat distro

service_facts is called to know the status (state: reloaded, restarted, started, stopped) of the MariaDB database

More functionalities will be added to the playbook. Feel free to make any pull requests, report issues or offer some advice and feedback