community.aws.elb_target_group – Manage a target group for an Application or Network load balancer

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

Synopsis

• Manage an AWS Elastic Load Balancer target group. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/load-balancer-target-groups.html or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/network/load-balancer-target-groups.html for details.

Requirements

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

• boto
• boto3
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Notes

Examples

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

- name: Create a target group with a default health check
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: mytargetgroup
    protocol: http
    port: 80
    vpc_id: vpc-01234567
    state: present

- name: Modify the target group with a custom health check
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: mytargetgroup
    protocol: http
    port: 80
    vpc_id: vpc-01234567
    health_check_protocol: http
    health_check_path: /health_check
    health_check_port: 80
    successful_response_codes: 200
    health_check_interval: 15
    health_check_timeout: 3
    healthy_threshold_count: 4
    unhealthy_threshold_count: 3
    state: present

- name: Delete a target group
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: mytargetgroup
    state: absent

- name: Create a target group with instance targets
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: mytargetgroup
    protocol: http
    port: 81
    vpc_id: vpc-01234567
    health_check_protocol: http
    health_check_path: /
    successful_response_codes: "200,250-260"
    targets:
      - Id: i-01234567
        Port: 80
      - Id: i-98765432
        Port: 80
    state: present
    wait_timeout: 200
    wait: True

- name: Create a target group with IP address targets
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: mytargetgroup
    protocol: http
    port: 81
    vpc_id: vpc-01234567
    health_check_protocol: http
    health_check_path: /
    successful_response_codes: "200,250-260"
    target_type: ip
    targets:
      - Id: 10.0.0.10
        Port: 80
        AvailabilityZone: all
      - Id: 10.0.0.20
        Port: 80
    state: present
    wait_timeout: 200
    wait: True

# Using lambda as targets require that the target group
# itself is allow to invoke the lambda function.
# therefore you need first to create an empty target group
# to receive its arn, second, allow the target group
# to invoke the lambda function and third, add the target
# to the target group
- name: first, create empty target group
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: my-lambda-targetgroup
    target_type: lambda
    state: present
    modify_targets: False
  register: out

- name: second, allow invoke of the lambda
  community.aws.lambda_policy:
    state: "{{ state | default('present') }}"
    function_name: my-lambda-function
    statement_id: someID
    action: lambda:InvokeFunction
    principal: elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com
    source_arn: "{{ out.target_group_arn }}"

- name: third, add target
  community.aws.elb_target_group:
    name: my-lambda-targetgroup
    target_type: lambda
    state: present
    targets:
        - Id: arn:aws:lambda:eu-central-1:123456789012:function:my-lambda-function

Return Values

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

Authors

• Rob White (@wimnat)