community.general.ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend – Manage OVH IP LoadBalancing backends

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.ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Manage OVH (French European hosting provider) LoadBalancing IP backends

Requirements

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

ovh > 0.3.5

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
application_key string / required		The applicationKey to use
application_secret string / required		The application secret to use
backend string / required		The IP address of the backend to update / modify / delete
consumer_key string / required		The consumer key to use
endpoint string / required		The endpoint to use ( for instance ovh-eu)
name string / required		Name of the LoadBalancing internal name (ip-X.X.X.X)
probe string	Choices: none ← http icmp oco	Determines the type of probe to use for this backend
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Determines whether the backend is to be created/modified or deleted
timeout integer	Default: 120	The timeout in seconds used to wait for a task to be completed.
weight integer	Default: 8	Determines the weight for this backend

Notes

Note

Uses the python OVH Api https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh. You have to create an application (a key and secret) with a consumer key as described into https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/customer/first-steps-with-ovh-api/

Examples

- name: Adds or modify the backend '212.1.1.1' to a loadbalancing 'ip-1.1.1.1'
  ovh_ip_loadbalancing:
    name: ip-1.1.1.1
    backend: 212.1.1.1
    state: present
    probe: none
    weight: 8
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

- name: Removes a backend '212.1.1.1' from a loadbalancing 'ip-1.1.1.1'
  ovh_ip_loadbalancing:
    name: ip-1.1.1.1
    backend: 212.1.1.1
    state: absent
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

Authors

Pascal Heraud (@pascalheraud)

© 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/ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend_module.html