resource_mariadb_configuration.md

mariadb_configuration

Mainly use for internal purpose. You can use it to create a new configuration file into configuration dir. You have to define 2 variables section and option. Where section is the configuration section, and option is a hash of key/value. The name of the resource is used as base for the filename.

Actions

• add - (default) Install the extra configuration file
• remove - Remove the extra configuration file

Properties

Name	Types	Description	Default	Required?
configuration_name	String	Name of the extra conf file, used for .cnf filename		yes
section	String			yes
option	Hash	All option to write in the configuration file	{}	yes
cookbook	String	The cookbook to look in for the template source	'mariadb	yes
extconf_directory	String	An additional directory from which Mysql read extra cnf	"ext_conf_dir (1)	yes

(1) ext_conf_dir is a helper method which return the extra configuration directory based on OS flavor

Examples

This example:

mariadb_configuration 'fake' do
  section 'mysqld'
  option :foo => 'bar'
end

will become the file fake.cnf in the include dir (depend on your platform), which contain:

[mysqld]
foo=bar

In another example, if the value start with a '#', then it's considered as a comment, and the value is printed as is (without the key):

mariadb_configuration 'fake' do
  section 'mysqld'
  option :comment1 => '# Here i am',
    :foo => bar
end

will become the file fake.cnf in the include dir (depend on your platform), which contain:

[mysqld]
# Here i am
foo=bar