community.general.nios_a_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS A 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.nios_a_record.

DEPRECATED

Removed in

version 5.0.0

Why

Please install the infoblox.nios_modules collection and use the corresponding module from it.

Alternative

infoblox.nios_modules.nios_a_record

Synopsis

  • Adds and/or removes instances of A record objects from Infoblox NIOS servers. This module manages NIOS record:a objects using the Infoblox WAPI interface over REST.

Requirements

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

  • infoblox-client

Parameters

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
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
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
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
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
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
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

Notes

Note

  • This module must be run locally, which can be achieved by specifying connection: local.
  • Please read the Infoblox Guide for more detailed information on how to use Infoblox with Ansible.

Examples

- 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

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 5.0.0. [deprecated]
  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Blair Rampling (@brampling)

© 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/nios_a_record_module.html