community.general.pickle – Pickle formatted files.

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community.general.pickle – Pickle formatted files.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.pickle.


Synopsis

  • This cache uses Python’s pickle serialization format, in per host files, saved to the filesystem.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments

_prefix

string

ini entries: [defaults]fact_caching_prefix = None


env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX

User defined prefix to use when creating the files

_timeout

string

Default:

86400

ini entries: [defaults]fact_caching_timeout = 86400


env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_TIMEOUT

Expiration timeout in seconds for the cache plugin data. Set to 0 to never expire

_uri

string / required

ini entries: [defaults]fact_caching_connection = None


env:ANSIBLE_CACHE_PLUGIN_CONNECTION

Path in which the cache plugin will save the files



Authors

  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/pickle_cache.html