ansible-role-geoipupdate

This role installs and configures Maxmind Geoipupdate.

Requirements

Ansible 2.10 or newer.

Supported Platforms

• Debian - 11 (Bullseye)
• Debian - 12 (Bookworm)
• Ubuntu - 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)
• Ubuntu - 24.04 (Noble Numbat)

Role Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Choices	Comments
geoipupdate_dependencies	yes	[cron]	list
geoipupdate_version	yes	7.1.0	string
geoipupdate_arch	yes	detected automatically	string
geoipupdate_path	yes	/usr/local/bin/geoipupdate	string
geoipupdate_config_file	yes	/usr/local/etc/GeoIP.conf	string
geoipupdate_account_id	yes	0	string
geoipupdate_license_key	yes	000000000000	string
geoipupdate_edition_ids	yes	[GeoLite2-Country, GeoLite2-City]	list	Databases to install.
geoipupdate_database_directory	yes	/usr/local/share/GeoIP	string
geoipupdate_host	yes	https://updates.maxmind.com	string
geoipupdate_proxy	no		string
geoipupdate_proxy_user_password	no		string
geoipupdate_preserve_file_times	yes	0	int
geoipupdate_lock_file	yes	DATADIR/.geoipupdate.lock	string
geoipupdate_retry_for	yes	5m	string
geoipupdate_parallelism	yes	1	int
geoipupdate_cron_state	yes	present	string
geoipupdate_cron_user	yes	root	string
geoipupdate_cron_special_time	yes	weekly	string
geoipupdate_cron_day	no		int
geoipupdate_cron_hour	no		int
geoipupdate_cron_minute	no		int
geoipupdate_cron_month	no		int
geoipupdate_cron_weekday	no		int

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - ansible-role-geoipupdate
      geoipupdate_account_id: 123
      geoipupdate_license_key: "ABCDEF"

Testing

molecule test

License

MIT

Author Information

@boutetnico