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.nios_a_record.
version 5.0.0
Please install the infoblox.nios_modules collection and use the corresponding module from it.
infoblox.nios_modules.nios_a_record
record:a objects using the Infoblox WAPI interface over REST.The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| comment string | Configures a text string comment to be associated with the instance of this object. The provided text string will be configured on the object instance. | ||
| extattrs dictionary | Allows for the configuration of Extensible Attributes on the instance of the object. This argument accepts a set of key / value pairs for configuration. | ||
| ipv4addr string | Configures the IPv4 address for this A record. Users can dynamically allocate ipv4 address to A record by passing dictionary containing, nios_next_ip and CIDR network range. See example aliases: ipv4 | ||
| name string / required | Specifies the fully qualified hostname to add or remove from the system | ||
| provider dictionary | A dict object containing connection details. | ||
| host string | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote instance of NIOS WAPI over REST Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_HOST environment variable. | ||
| http_pool_connections integer | Default: 10 | Number of pools to be used by the infoblox_client.Connector object.This is passed as-is to the underlying requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter class. | |
| http_pool_maxsize integer | Default: 10 | Maximum number of connections per pool to be used by the infoblox_client.Connector object.This is passed as-is to the underlying requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter class. | |
| http_request_timeout integer | Default: 10 | The amount of time before to wait before receiving a response Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT environment variable. | |
| max_results integer | Default: 1000 | Specifies the maximum number of objects to be returned, if set to a negative number the appliance will return an error when the number of returned objects would exceed the setting. Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_MAX_RESULTS environment variable. | |
| max_retries integer | Default: 3 | Configures the number of attempted retries before the connection is declared usable Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_MAX_RETRIES environment variable. | |
| password string | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance of NIOS. Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_PASSWORD environment variable. | ||
| silent_ssl_warnings boolean |
| Disable urllib3 SSL warnings in the infoblox_client.Connector object.This is passed as-is to the underlying requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter class. | |
| username string | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance of NIOS. Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_USERNAME environment variable. | ||
| validate_certs boolean |
| Boolean value to enable or disable verifying SSL certificates Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_SSL_VERIFY environment variable.aliases: ssl_verify | |
| wapi_version string | Default: "2.1" | Specifies the version of WAPI to use Value can also be specified using INFOBLOX_WAP_VERSION environment variable.Until ansible 2.8 the default WAPI was 1.4 | |
| state string |
| Configures the intended state of the instance of the object on the NIOS server. When this value is set to present, the object is configured on the device and when this value is set to absent the value is removed (if necessary) from the device. | |
| ttl integer | Configures the TTL to be associated with this A record | ||
| view string | Default: "default" | Sets the DNS view to associate this A record with. The DNS view must already be configured on the system aliases: dns_view | |
Note
connection: local.- name: Configure an A record
community.general.nios_a_record:
name: a.ansible.com
ipv4: 192.168.10.1
state: present
provider:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"
username: admin
password: admin
connection: local
- name: Add a comment to an existing A record
community.general.nios_a_record:
name: a.ansible.com
ipv4: 192.168.10.1
comment: this is a test comment
state: present
provider:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"
username: admin
password: admin
connection: local
- name: Remove an A record from the system
community.general.nios_a_record:
name: a.ansible.com
ipv4: 192.168.10.1
state: absent
provider:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"
username: admin
password: admin
connection: local
- name: Update an A record name
community.general.nios_a_record:
name: {new_name: a_new.ansible.com, old_name: a.ansible.com}
ipv4: 192.168.10.1
state: present
provider:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"
username: admin
password: admin
connection: local
- name: Dynamically add a record to next available ip
community.general.nios_a_record:
name: a.ansible.com
ipv4: {nios_next_ip: 192.168.10.0/24}
state: present
provider:
host: "{{ inventory_hostname_short }}"
username: admin
password: admin
connection: local
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