community.general.influxdb_retention_policy – Manage InfluxDB retention policies  Note This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2). To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.influxdb_retention_policy.   Synopsis Requirements Parameters Examples  Synopsis  Manage InfluxDB retention policies.  Requirements The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.  python >= 2.6 influxdb >= 0.9 requests  Parameters   Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments    database_name  string / required      Name of the database.     default  boolean    
Choices: 
no ← yes    Sets the retention policy as default retention policy.     duration  string / required      Determines how long InfluxDB should keep the data.     hostname  string    Default:"localhost"   The hostname or IP address on which InfluxDB server is listening. Since Ansible 2.5, defaulted to localhost.     password  string    Default:"root"   Password that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server. Alias login_password added in Ansible 2.5. 
aliases: login_password     path  string   added in 0.2.0 of community.general      The path on which InfluxDB server is accessible Only available when using python-influxdb >= 5.1.0     policy_name  string / required      Name of the retention policy.     port  integer    Default:8086   The port on which InfluxDB server is listening     proxies  dictionary      HTTP(S) proxy to use for Requests to connect to InfluxDB server.     replication  integer / required      Determines how many independent copies of each point are stored in the cluster.     retries  integer    Default:3   Number of retries client will try before aborting. 
0 indicates try until success. Only available when using python-influxdb >= 4.1.0     ssl  boolean    
Choices: 
no ← yes    Use https instead of http to connect to InfluxDB server.     timeout  integer      Number of seconds Requests will wait for client to establish a connection.     udp_port  integer    Default:4444   UDP port to connect to InfluxDB server.     use_udp  boolean    
Choices: 
no ← yes    Use UDP to connect to InfluxDB server.     username  string    Default:"root"   Username that will be used to authenticate against InfluxDB server. Alias login_username added in Ansible 2.5. 
aliases: login_username     validate_certs  boolean    
Choices: no 
yes ←    If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.     Examples # Example influxdb_retention_policy command from Ansible Playbooks
- name: Create 1 hour retention policy
  community.general.influxdb_retention_policy:
      hostname: "{{influxdb_ip_address}}"
      database_name: "{{influxdb_database_name}}"
      policy_name: test
      duration: 1h
      replication: 1
      ssl: yes
      validate_certs: yes

- name: Create 1 day retention policy
  community.general.influxdb_retention_policy:
      hostname: "{{influxdb_ip_address}}"
      database_name: "{{influxdb_database_name}}"
      policy_name: test
      duration: 1d
      replication: 1

- name: Create 1 week retention policy
  community.general.influxdb_retention_policy:
      hostname: "{{influxdb_ip_address}}"
      database_name: "{{influxdb_database_name}}"
      policy_name: test
      duration: 1w
      replication: 1

- name: Create infinite retention policy
  community.general.influxdb_retention_policy:
      hostname: "{{influxdb_ip_address}}"
      database_name: "{{influxdb_database_name}}"
      policy_name: test
      duration: INF
      replication: 1
      ssl: no
      validate_certs: no
 Authors  Kamil Szczygiel (@kamsz) 

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