amazon.aws.ec2_eni – Create and optionally attach an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) to an instance

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Create and optionally attach an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) to an instance. If an ENI ID or private_ip is provided, the existing ENI (if any) will be modified. The ‘attached’ parameter controls the attachment status of the network interface.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• boto

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

# Create an ENI. As no security group is defined, ENI will be created in default security group
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    private_ip_address: 172.31.0.20
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
    state: present

# Create an ENI and attach it to an instance
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    instance_id: i-xxxxxxx
    device_index: 1
    private_ip_address: 172.31.0.20
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
    state: present

# Create an ENI with two secondary addresses
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
    state: present
    secondary_private_ip_address_count: 2

# Assign a secondary IP address to an existing ENI
# This will purge any existing IPs
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
    eni_id: eni-yyyyyyyy
    state: present
    secondary_private_ip_addresses:
      - 172.16.1.1

# Remove any secondary IP addresses from an existing ENI
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
    eni_id: eni-yyyyyyyy
    state: present
    secondary_private_ip_address_count: 0

# Destroy an ENI, detaching it from any instance if necessary
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    eni_id: eni-xxxxxxx
    force_detach: true
    state: absent

# Update an ENI
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    eni_id: eni-xxxxxxx
    description: "My new description"
    state: present

# Update an ENI using name and subnet_id
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    name: eni-20
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxx
    description: "My new description"
    state: present

# Update an ENI identifying it by private_ip_address and subnet_id
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxx
    private_ip_address: 172.16.1.1
    description: "My new description"

# Detach an ENI from an instance
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    eni_id: eni-xxxxxxx
    instance_id: None
    state: present

### Delete an interface on termination
# First create the interface
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    instance_id: i-xxxxxxx
    device_index: 1
    private_ip_address: 172.31.0.20
    subnet_id: subnet-xxxxxxxx
    state: present
  register: eni

# Modify the interface to enable the delete_on_terminaton flag
- amazon.aws.ec2_eni:
    eni_id: "{{ eni.interface.id }}"
    delete_on_termination: true

Return Values

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

Authors

• Rob White (@wimnat)
• Mike Healey (@healem)