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community.general.cloudflare_dns – Manage Cloudflare DNS records

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.cloudflare_dns.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Manages dns records via the Cloudflare API, see the docs: https://api.cloudflare.com/.

Requirements

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

python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
account_api_key string		Account API key. Required for api keys authentication. You can obtain your API key from the bottom of the Cloudflare 'My Account' page, found here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/. aliases: account_api_token
account_email string		Account email. Required for API keys authentication.
algorithm integer		Algorithm number. Required for `type=DS` and `type=SSHFP` when `state=present`.
api_token string added in 0.2.0 of community.general		API token. Required for api token authentication. You can obtain your API token from the bottom of the Cloudflare 'My Account' page, found here: https://dash.cloudflare.com/. Can be specified in `CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN` environment variable since community.general 2.0.0.
cert_usage integer	Choices: 0 1 2 3	Certificate usage number. Required for `type=TLSA` when `state=present`.
hash_type integer	Choices: 1 2	Hash type number. Required for `type=DS`, `type=SSHFP` and `type=TLSA` when `state=present`.
key_tag integer		DNSSEC key tag. Needed for `type=DS` when `state=present`.
port integer		Service port. Required for `type=SRV` and `type=TLSA`.
priority integer	Default: 1	Record priority. Required for `type=MX` and `type=SRV`
proto string		Service protocol. Required for `type=SRV` and `type=TLSA`. Common values are TCP and UDP. Before Ansible 2.6 only TCP and UDP were available.
proxied boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Proxy through Cloudflare network or just use DNS.
record string	Default: "@"	Record to add. Required if `state=present`. Default is `@` (e.g. the zone name). aliases: name
selector integer	Choices: 0 1	Selector number. Required for `type=TLSA` when `state=present`.
service string		Record service. Required for type=SRV.
solo boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether the record should be the only one for that record type and record name. Only use with `state=present`. This will delete all other records with the same record name and type.
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Whether the record(s) should exist or not.
timeout integer	Default: 30	Timeout for Cloudflare API calls.
ttl integer	Default: 1	The TTL to give the new record. Must be between 120 and 2,147,483,647 seconds, or 1 for automatic.
type string	Choices: A AAAA CNAME DS MX NS SPF SRV SSHFP TLSA TXT	The type of DNS record to create. Required if `state=present`. `type=DS`, `type=SSHFP` and `type=TLSA` added in Ansible 2.7.
value string		The record value. Required for `state=present`. aliases: content
weight integer	Default: 1	Service weight. Required for `type=SRV`.
zone string / required		The name of the Zone to work with (e.g. "example.com"). The Zone must already exist. aliases: domain

Examples

- name: Create a test.example.net A record to point to 127.0.0.1
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.net
    record: test
    type: A
    value: 127.0.0.1
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_key: dummyapitoken
  register: record

- name: Create a record using api token
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.net
    record: test
    type: A
    value: 127.0.0.1
    api_token: dummyapitoken

- name: Create a example.net CNAME record to example.com
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.net
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_key: dummyapitoken
    state: present

- name: Change its TTL
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.net
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    ttl: 600
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_key: dummyapitoken
    state: present

- name: Delete the record
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.net
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_key: dummyapitoken
    state: absent

- name: Create a example.net CNAME record to example.com and proxy through Cloudflare's network
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.net
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    proxied: yes
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_key: dummyapitoken
    state: present

# This deletes all other TXT records named "test.example.net"
- name: Create TXT record "test.example.net" with value "unique value"
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    domain: example.net
    record: test
    type: TXT
    value: unique value
    solo: true
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_key: dummyapitoken
    state: present

- name: Create an SRV record _foo._tcp.example.net
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    domain: example.net
    service: foo
    proto: tcp
    port: 3500
    priority: 10
    weight: 20
    type: SRV
    value: fooserver.example.net

- name: Create a SSHFP record login.example.com
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.com
    record: login
    type: SSHFP
    algorithm: 4
    hash_type: 2
    value: 9dc1d6742696d2f51ca1f1a78b3d16a840f7d111eb9454239e70db31363f33e1

- name: Create a TLSA record _25._tcp.mail.example.com
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.com
    record: mail
    port: 25
    proto: tcp
    type: TLSA
    cert_usage: 3
    selector: 1
    hash_type: 1
    value: 6b76d034492b493e15a7376fccd08e63befdad0edab8e442562f532338364bf3

- name: Create a DS record for subdomain.example.com
  community.general.cloudflare_dns:
    zone: example.com
    record: subdomain
    type: DS
    key_tag: 5464
    algorithm: 8
    hash_type: 2
    value: B4EB5AC4467D2DFB3BAF9FB9961DC1B6FED54A58CDFAA3E465081EC86F89BFAB

Return Values

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

Key		Returned	Description
record complex		success, except on record deletion	A dictionary containing the record data.
	content string	success	The record content (details depend on record type). Sample: 192.0.2.91
	created_on string	success	The record creation date. Sample: 2016-03-25T19:09:42.516553Z
	data dictionary	success, if type is SRV, DS, SSHFP or TLSA	Additional record data. Sample: {'name': 'jabber', 'port': 8080, 'priority': 10, 'proto': '_tcp', 'service': '_xmpp', 'target': 'jabberhost.sample.com', 'weight': 5}
	id string	success	The record ID. Sample: f9efb0549e96abcb750de63b38c9576e
	locked boolean	success	No documentation available.
	meta dictionary	success	No documentation available. Sample: {'auto_added': False}
	modified_on string	success	Record modification date. Sample: 2016-03-25T19:09:42.516553Z
	name string	success	The record name as FQDN (including _service and _proto for SRV). Sample: www.sample.com
	priority integer	success, if type is MX	Priority of the MX record. Sample: 10
	proxiable boolean	success	Whether this record can be proxied through Cloudflare.
	proxied boolean	success	Whether the record is proxied through Cloudflare.
	ttl integer	success	The time-to-live for the record. Sample: 300
	type string	success	The record type. Sample: A
	zone_id string	success	The ID of the zone containing the record. Sample: abcede0bf9f0066f94029d2e6b73856a
	zone_name string	success	The name of the zone containing the record. Sample: sample.com

Authors

Michael Gruener (@mgruener)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/cloudflare_dns_module.html