Ansible Role: PgBouncer

This role installs and configures the PgBouncer connection pooler for PostgreSQL.

It has only been designed to work on Ubuntu 16.04, but other Debian flavours should also work.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

The pgbouncer_databases array allows a very dynamic database setup. Any property allowed in the connection string can be defined under this array and will automatically be added to the alias definition. The example below configures a dev database alias that pools connections to the postgres database on postgres:5432 connecting as foo:md5asdofiasodfa09f9832f. You can define more databases in the same fashion.

pgbouncer_databases:
  - dev:
      host: postgres # or the actual ip address
      port: 5432
      dbname: postgres
      user: foo
      password: md5asdofiasodfa09f9832f

This role can also optionally install the postgresql-client package for command-line access to PostgreSQL or PgBouncer. To install this package set pgbouncer_install_psql: true.

The configuration template allows some values to be overridden. To achieve this, create a variable named after the configuration property you want to change and prefix it with pgbouncer_. For example, to override the default listen_port of 6432, pass a variable named pgbouncer_listen_port. See the template file for other configs that can be overridden this way. Note that not all settings are available, only some common ones that I use.

Note: Some variables expect an array - it should be obvious which ones.

See the defaults/main.yml for more descriptions of other variables. You should also check templates/pgbouncer.ini.j2 for possible extra variables you can set.

pgbouncer_install_state: This is useful for updating PgBouncer to newer versions after it has already been installed. Use latest to achieve this functionality.

Resources

Documentation related to PgBouncer can be found at the links below:

Dependencies