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# rds_instance – Manage RDS instances

New in version 2.7.

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- Create, modify, and delete RDS instances.

## Requirements

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

- boto

- boto3 >= 1.5.0

- botocore

- python >= 2.6

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
allocated_storage integer |  | The amount of storage (in gibibytes) to allocate for the DB instance.
allow_major_version_upgrade boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether to allow major version upgrades.
apply_immediately boolean | Choices: no ← yes | A value that specifies whether modifying a cluster with new_db_instance_identifier and master_user_password should be applied as soon as possible, regardless of the preferred_maintenance_window setting. If false, changes are applied during the next maintenance window.
auto_minor_version_upgrade boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether minor version upgrades are applied automatically to the DB instance during the maintenance window.
availability_zone string |  | A list of EC2 Availability Zones that instances in the DB cluster can be created in. May be used when creating a cluster or when restoring from S3 or a snapshot. Mutually exclusive with multi_az. aliases: az, zone
aws_access_key string |  | AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key string |  | AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
backup_retention_period integer |  | The number of days for which automated backups are retained (must be greater or equal to 1). May be used when creating a new cluster, when restoring from S3, or when modifying a cluster.
ca_certificate_identifier string |  | The identifier of the CA certificate for the DB instance.
character_set_name string |  | The character set to associate with the DB cluster.
copy_tags_to_snapshot boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether or not to copy all tags from the DB instance to snapshots of the instance. When initially creating a DB instance the RDS API defaults this to false if unspecified.
creation_source string | Choices: snapshot s3 instance | Which source to use if restoring from a template (an existing instance, S3 bucket, or snapshot).
db_cluster_identifier string |  | The DB cluster (lowercase) identifier to add the aurora DB instance to. The identifier must contain from 1 to 63 letters, numbers, or hyphens and the first character must be a letter and may not end in a hyphen or contain consecutive hyphens. aliases: cluster_id
db_instance_class string |  | The compute and memory capacity of the DB instance, for example db.t2.micro. aliases: class, instance_type
db_instance_identifier string / required |  | The DB instance (lowercase) identifier. The identifier must contain from 1 to 63 letters, numbers, or hyphens and the first character must be a letter and may not end in a hyphen or contain consecutive hyphens. aliases: instance_id, id
db_name string |  | The name for your database. If a name is not provided Amazon RDS will not create a database.
db_parameter_group_name string |  | The name of the DB parameter group to associate with this DB instance. When creating the DB instance if this argument is omitted the default DBParameterGroup for the specified engine is used.
db_security_groups list |  | (EC2-Classic platform) A list of DB security groups to associate with this DB instance.
db_snapshot_identifier string |  | The identifier for the DB snapshot to restore from if using creation_source=snapshot.
db_subnet_group_name string |  | The DB subnet group name to use for the DB instance. aliases: subnet_group
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs boolean added in 2.8 | Choices: no ← yes | Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
domain string |  | The Active Directory Domain to restore the instance in.
domain_iam_role_name string |  | The name of the IAM role to be used when making API calls to the Directory Service.
ec2_url string |  | Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
enable_cloudwatch_logs_exports list |  | A list of log types that need to be enabled for exporting to CloudWatch Logs. aliases: cloudwatch_log_exports
enable_iam_database_authentication boolean | Choices: no yes | Enable mapping of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts to database accounts. If this option is omitted when creating the cluster, Amazon RDS sets this to False.
enable_performance_insights boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether to enable Performance Insights for the DB instance.
engine string |  | The name of the database engine to be used for this DB instance. This is required to create an instance. Valid choices are aurora | aurora-mysql | aurora-postgresql | mariadb | mysql | oracle-ee | oracle-se | oracle-se1 | oracle-se2 | postgres | sqlserver-ee | sqlserver-ex | sqlserver-se | sqlserver-web
engine_version string |  | The version number of the database engine to use. For Aurora MySQL that could be 5.6.10a , 5.7.12. Aurora PostgreSQL example, 9.6.3
final_db_snapshot_identifier string |  | The DB instance snapshot identifier of the new DB instance snapshot created when skip_final_snapshot is false. aliases: final_snapshot_identifier
force_failover boolean | Choices: no yes | Set to true to conduct the reboot through a MultiAZ failover.
force_update_password boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Set to True to update your cluster password with master_user_password. Since comparing passwords to determine if it needs to be updated is not possible this is set to False by default to allow idempotence.
iops integer |  | The Provisioned IOPS (I/O operations per second) value. Is only set when using storage_type is set to io1.
kms_key_id string |  | The ARN of the AWS KMS key identifier for an encrypted DB instance. If you are creating a DB instance with the same AWS account that owns the KMS encryption key used to encrypt the new DB instance, then you can use the KMS key alias instead of the ARN for the KM encryption key. If storage_encrypted is true and and this option is not provided, the default encryption key is used.
license_model string |  | The license model for the DB instance. Several options are license-included, bring-your-own-license, and general-public-license. This option can also be omitted to default to an accepted value.
master_user_password string |  | An 8-41 character password for the master database user. The password can contain any printable ASCII character except "/", """, or "@". To modify the password use force_password_update. Use apply immediately to change the password immediately, otherwise it is updated during the next maintenance window. aliases: password
master_username string |  | The name of the master user for the DB cluster. Must be 1-16 letters or numbers and begin with a letter. aliases: username
max_allocated_storage integer added in 2.9 |  | The upper limit to which Amazon RDS can automatically scale the storage of the DB instance.
monitoring_interval integer |  | The interval, in seconds, when Enhanced Monitoring metrics are collected for the DB instance. To disable collecting metrics, specify 0. Amazon RDS defaults this to 0 if omitted when initially creating a DB instance.
monitoring_role_arn string |  | The ARN for the IAM role that permits RDS to send enhanced monitoring metrics to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
multi_az boolean | Choices: no yes | Specifies if the DB instance is a Multi-AZ deployment. Mutually exclusive with availability_zone.
new_db_instance_identifier string |  | The new DB cluster (lowercase) identifier for the DB cluster when renaming a DB instance. The identifier must contain from 1 to 63 letters, numbers, or hyphens and the first character must be a letter and may not end in a hyphen or contain consecutive hyphens. Use apply_immediately to rename immediately, otherwise it is updated during the next maintenance window. aliases: new_instance_id, new_id
option_group_name string |  | The option group to associate with the DB instance.
performance_insights_kms_key_id string |  | The AWS KMS key identifier (ARN, name, or alias) for encryption of Performance Insights data.
performance_insights_retention_period integer |  | The amount of time, in days, to retain Performance Insights data. Valid values are 7 or 731.
port integer |  | The port number on which the instances accept connections.
preferred_backup_window string |  | The daily time range (in UTC) of at least 30 minutes, during which automated backups are created if automated backups are enabled using backup_retention_period. The option must be in the format of "hh24:mi-hh24:mi" and not conflict with preferred_maintenance_window. aliases: backup_window
preferred_maintenance_window string |  | The weekly time range (in UTC) of at least 30 minutes, during which system maintenance can occur. The option must be in the format "ddd:hh24:mi-ddd:hh24:mi" where ddd is one of Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun. aliases: maintenance_window
processor_features dictionary |  | A dictionary of Name, Value pairs to indicate the number of CPU cores and the number of threads per core for the DB instance class of the DB instance. Names are threadsPerCore and coreCount. Set this option to an empty dictionary to use the default processor features.
| coreCount - |  | The number of CPU cores
| threadsPerCore - |  | The number of threads per core
profile string |  | Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
promotion_tier string |  | An integer that specifies the order in which an Aurora Replica is promoted to the primary instance after a failure of the existing primary instance.
publicly_accessible boolean | Choices: no yes | Specifies the accessibility options for the DB instance. A value of true specifies an Internet-facing instance with a publicly resolvable DNS name, which resolves to a public IP address. A value of false specifies an internal instance with a DNS name that resolves to a private IP address.
purge_cloudwatch_logs_exports boolean | Choices: no yes ← | Set to False to retain any enabled cloudwatch logs that aren't specified in the task and are associated with the instance.
purge_tags boolean | Choices: no yes ← | Set to False to retain any tags that aren't specified in task and are associated with the instance.
read_replica boolean | Choices: no yes | Set to False to promote a read replica cluster or true to create one. When creating a read replica `creation_source` should be set to 'instance' or not provided. `source_db_instance_identifier` must be provided with this option.
region string |  | The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
restore_time string |  | If using creation_source=instance this indicates the UTC date and time to restore from the source instance. For example, "2009-09-07T23:45:00Z". May alternatively set c(use_latest_restore_time) to True.
s3_bucket_name string |  | The name of the Amazon S3 bucket that contains the data used to create the Amazon DB instance.
s3_ingestion_role_arn string |  | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that authorizes Amazon RDS to access the Amazon S3 bucket on your behalf.
s3_prefix string |  | The prefix for all of the file names that contain the data used to create the Amazon DB instance. If you do not specify a SourceS3Prefix value, then the Amazon DB instance is created by using all of the files in the Amazon S3 bucket.
security_token string |  | AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
skip_final_snapshot boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Whether a final DB cluster snapshot is created before the DB cluster is deleted. If this is false final_db_snapshot_identifier must be provided.
snapshot_identifier string |  | The ARN of the DB snapshot to restore from when using creation_source=snapshot.
source_db_instance_identifier string |  | The identifier or ARN of the source DB instance from which to restore when creating a read replica or spinning up a point-in-time DB instance using creation_source=instance. If the source DB is not in the same region this should be an ARN.
source_engine string | Choices: mysql | The identifier for the database engine that was backed up to create the files stored in the Amazon S3 bucket.
source_engine_version string |  | The version of the database that the backup files were created from.
source_region string |  | The region of the DB instance from which the replica is created.
state string | Choices: present ← absent terminated running started stopped rebooted restarted | Whether the snapshot should exist or not. rebooted is not idempotent and will leave the DB instance in a running state and start it prior to rebooting if it was stopped. present will leave the DB instance in the current running/stopped state, (running if creating the DB instance). state=running and state=started are synonyms, as are state=rebooted and state=restarted. Note - rebooting the instance is not idempotent.
storage_encrypted boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether the DB instance is encrypted.
storage_type string | Choices: standard gp2 io1 | The storage type to be associated with the DB instance. storage_type does not apply to Aurora DB instances.
tags dictionary |  | A dictionary of key value pairs to assign the DB cluster.
tde_credential_arn string |  | The ARN from the key store with which to associate the instance for Transparent Data Encryption. This is supported by Oracle or SQL Server DB instances and may be used in conjunction with `storage_encrypted` though it might slightly affect the performance of your database. aliases: transparent_data_encryption_arn
tde_credential_password string |  | The password for the given ARN from the key store in order to access the device. aliases: transparent_data_encryption_password
timezone string |  | The time zone of the DB instance.
use_latest_restorable_time boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether to restore the DB instance to the latest restorable backup time. Only one of use_latest_restorable_time and restore_to_time may be provided. aliases: restore_from_latest
validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
vpc_security_group_ids list |  | A list of EC2 VPC security groups to associate with the DB cluster.
wait boolean | Choices: no yes ← | Whether to wait for the cluster to be available, stopped, or deleted. At a later time a wait_timeout option may be added. Following each API call to create/modify/delete the instance a waiter is used with a 60 second delay 30 times until the instance reaches the expected state (available/stopped/deleted). The total task time may also be influenced by AWSRetry which helps stabilize if the instance is in an invalid state to operate on to begin with (such as if you try to stop it when it is in the process of rebooting). If setting this to False task retries and delays may make your playbook execution better handle timeouts for major modifications.

## Notes

Note

- If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence `AWS_URL` or `EC2_URL`, `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` or `AWS_ACCESS_KEY` or `EC2_ACCESS_KEY`, `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` or `AWS_SECRET_KEY` or `EC2_SECRET_KEY`, `AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN` or `EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN`, `AWS_REGION` or `EC2_REGION`

- Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html

- `AWS_REGION` or `EC2_REGION` can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

## Examples

    # Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.
    - name: create minimal aurora instance in default VPC and default subnet group
      rds_instance:
        engine: aurora
        db_instance_identifier: ansible-test-aurora-db-instance
        instance_type: db.t2.small
        password: "{{ password }}"
        username: "{{ username }}"
        cluster_id: ansible-test-cluster  # This cluster must exist - see rds_cluster to manage it

    - name: Create a DB instance using the default AWS KMS encryption key
      rds_instance:
        id: test-encrypted-db
        state: present
        engine: mariadb
        storage_encrypted: True
        db_instance_class: db.t2.medium
        username: "{{ username }}"
        password: "{{ password }}"
        allocated_storage: "{{ allocated_storage }}"

    - name: remove the DB instance without a final snapshot
      rds_instance:
        id: "{{ instance_id }}"
        state: absent
        skip_final_snapshot: True

    - name: remove the DB instance with a final snapshot
      rds_instance:
        id: "{{ instance_id }}"
        state: absent
        final_snapshot_identifier: "{{ snapshot_id }}"

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
allocated_storage integer | always | The allocated storage size in gibibytes. This is always 1 for aurora database engines. Sample: 20
auto_minor_version_upgrade boolean | always | Whether minor engine upgrades are applied automatically to the DB instance during the maintenance window. Sample: True
availability_zone string | always | The availability zone for the DB instance. Sample: us-east-1f
backup_retention_period integer | always | The number of days for which automated backups are retained. Sample: 1
ca_certificate_identifier string | always | The identifier of the CA certificate for the DB instance. Sample: rds-ca-2015
copy_tags_to_snapshot boolean | always | Whether tags are copied from the DB instance to snapshots of the DB instance.
db_instance_arn string | always | The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the DB instance. Sample: arn:aws:rds:us-east-1:123456789012:db:ansible-test
db_instance_class string | always | The name of the compute and memory capacity class of the DB instance. Sample: db.m4.large
db_instance_identifier string | always | The identifier of the DB instance Sample: ansible-test
db_instance_port integer | always | The port that the DB instance listens on.
db_instance_status string | always | The current state of this database. Sample: stopped
db_parameter_groups complex | always | The list of DB parameter groups applied to this DB instance.
| db_parameter_group_name string | always | The name of the DP parameter group. Sample: default.mariadb10.0
| parameter_apply_status string | always | The status of parameter updates. Sample: in-sync
db_security_groups list | always | A list of DB security groups associated with this DB instance.
db_subnet_group complex | always | The subnet group associated with the DB instance.
| db_subnet_group_description string | always | The description of the DB subnet group. Sample: default
| db_subnet_group_name string | always | The name of the DB subnet group. Sample: default
| subnet_group_status string | always | The status of the DB subnet group. Sample: Complete
| subnets complex | always | A list of Subnet elements.
|  | subnet_availability_zone complex | always | The availability zone of the subnet.
|  |  | name string | always | The name of the Availability Zone. Sample: us-east-1c
|  | subnet_identifier string | always | The ID of the subnet. Sample: subnet-12345678
|  | subnet_status string | always | The status of the subnet. Sample: Active
| vpc_id string | always | The VpcId of the DB subnet group. Sample: vpc-12345678
dbi_resource_id string | always | The AWS Region-unique, immutable identifier for the DB instance. Sample: db-UHV3QRNWX4KB6GALCIGRML6QFA
domain_memberships list | always | The Active Directory Domain membership records associated with the DB instance.
endpoint complex | always | The connection endpoint.
| address string | always | The DNS address of the DB instance. Sample: ansible-test.cvlrtwiennww.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com
| hosted_zone_id string | always | The ID that Amazon Route 53 assigns when you create a hosted zone. Sample: ZTR2ITUGPA61AM
| port integer | always | The port that the database engine is listening on. Sample: 3306
engine string | always | The database engine version. Sample: mariadb
engine_version string | always | The database engine version. Sample: 10.0.35
iam_database_authentication_enabled boolean | always | Whether mapping of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) accounts to database accounts is enabled.
instance_create_time string | always | The date and time the DB instance was created. Sample: 2018-07-04T16:48:35.332000+00:00
kms_key_id string | When storage_encrypted is true | The AWS KMS key identifier for the encrypted DB instance when storage_encrypted is true. Sample: arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/70c45553-ad2e-4a85-9f14-cfeb47555c33
latest_restorable_time string | always | The latest time to which a database can be restored with point-in-time restore. Sample: 2018-07-04T16:50:50.642000+00:00
license_model string | always | The License model information for this DB instance. Sample: general-public-license
master_username string | always | The master username for the DB instance. Sample: test
max_allocated_storage integer | When max allocated storage is present. | The upper limit to which Amazon RDS can automatically scale the storage of the DB instance. Sample: 100
monitoring_interval integer | always | The interval, in seconds, between points when Enhanced Monitoring metrics are collected for the DB instance. 0 means collecting Enhanced Monitoring metrics is disabled.
multi_az boolean | always | Whether the DB instance is a Multi-AZ deployment.
option_group_memberships complex | always | The list of option group memberships for this DB instance.
| option_group_name string | always | The name of the option group that the instance belongs to. Sample: default:mariadb-10-0
| status string | always | The status of the DB instance's option group membership. Sample: in-sync
pending_modified_values complex | always | The changes to the DB instance that are pending.
performance_insights_enabled boolean | always | True if Performance Insights is enabled for the DB instance, and otherwise false.
preferred_backup_window string | always | The daily time range during which automated backups are created if automated backups are enabled. Sample: 07:01-07:31
preferred_maintenance_window string | always | The weekly time range (in UTC) during which system maintenance can occur. Sample: sun:09:31-sun:10:01
publicly_accessible boolean | always | True for an Internet-facing instance with a publicly resolvable DNS name, False to indicate an internal instance with a DNS name that resolves to a private IP address. Sample: True
read_replica_db_instance_identifiers list | always | Identifiers of the Read Replicas associated with this DB instance.
storage_encrypted boolean | always | Whether the DB instance is encrypted.
storage_type string | always | The storage type to be associated with the DB instance. Sample: standard
tags complex | always | A dictionary of tags associated with the DB instance.
vpc_security_groups complex | always | A list of VPC security group elements that the DB instance belongs to.
| status string | always | The status of the VPC security group. Sample: active
| vpc_security_group_id string | always | The name of the VPC security group. Sample: sg-12345678

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Sloane Hertel (@s-hertel)

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