Background

Both Ansible and Ansible customers frequently use PostgreSQL as the database for services. The Azure collection does not support flexible server types, which limits options for automating database services for both deployments of the managed application and customer applications. Support for Flexible Servers delivers capabilities to support common customer feature requests and so that managed application deployments can right-size database instances based on customer infrastructure use.

Business Impact: Postgres databases are used by numerous (potential) customers, and allowing for this enhancement of the Azure collection creates new Business use cases for automation of their postgres services using Ansible.

Story

As an Ansible on Clouds automator I can create and manage the lifecycle of PostgreSQL Flex Servers so that I may automate the deployment and management of my PostgreSQL-based applications that need to run on the Azure Flex DB service.