cs_loadbalancer_rule - Manages load balancer rules on Apache CloudStack based clouds.

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

  • Add, update and remove load balancer rules.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • python >= 2.6
  • cs >= 0.6.10

Options

parameter required default choices comments
account
 no
Account the rule is related to.
algorithm
 no source
  • source
  • roundrobin
  • leastconn
Load balancer algorithm
Required when using state=present.
api_http_method
 no get
  • get
  • post
HTTP method used.
api_key
 no
API key of the CloudStack API.
api_region
 no cloudstack
Name of the ini section in the cloustack.ini file.
api_secret
 no
Secret key of the CloudStack API.
api_timeout
 no 10
HTTP timeout.
api_url
 no
URL of the CloudStack API e.g. https://cloud.example.com/client/api.
cidr
 no
CIDR (full notation) to be used for firewall rule if required.
description
 no
The description of the load balancer rule.
domain
 no
Domain the rule is related to.
ip_address
 yes
Public IP address from where the network traffic will be load balanced from.
aliases: public_ip
name
 yes
The name of the load balancer rule.
open_firewall
 no
Whether the firewall rule for public port should be created, while creating the new rule.
Use cs_firewall for managing firewall rules.
private_port
 no
The private port of the private ip address/virtual machine where the network traffic will be load balanced to.
Required when using state=present.
Can not be changed once the rule exists due API limitation.
project
 no
Name of the project the load balancer IP address is related to.
protocol
 no
The protocol to be used on the load balancer
public_port
 yes
The public port from where the network traffic will be load balanced from.
Required when using state=present.
Can not be changed once the rule exists due API limitation.
state
 yes present
  • present
  • absent
State of the rule.
zone
 no
Name of the zone in which the rule should be created.
If not set, default zone is used.

Examples

# Create a load balancer rule
- local_action:
    module: cs_loadbalancer_rule
    name: balance_http
    public_ip: 1.2.3.4
    algorithm: leastconn
    public_port: 80
    private_port: 8080

# update algorithm of an existing load balancer rule
- local_action:
    module: cs_loadbalancer_rule
    name: balance_http
    public_ip: 1.2.3.4
    algorithm: roundrobin
    public_port: 80
    private_port: 8080

# Delete a load balancer rule
- local_action:
    module: cs_loadbalancer_rule
    name: balance_http
    public_ip: 1.2.3.4
    state: absent

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
account
Account the rule is related to.
 success string example account
algorithm
Load balancer algorithm used.
 success string source
cidr
CIDR to forward traffic from.
 success string
description
Description of the rule.
 success string http load balancer rule
domain
Domain the rule is related to.
 success string example domain
id
UUID of the rule.
 success string a6f7a5fc-43f8-11e5-a151-feff819cdc9f
name
Name of the rule.
 success string http-lb
private_port
Private IP address.
 success string 80
project
Name of project the rule is related to.
 success string Production
protocol
Protocol of the rule.
 success string tcp
public_ip
Public IP address.
 success string 1.2.3.4
public_port
Public port.
 success string 80
state
State of the rule.
 success string Add
tags
List of resource tags associated with the rule.
 success dict [ { "key": "foo", "value": "bar" } ]
zone
Name of zone the rule is related to.
 success string ch-gva-2

Notes

Note

  • Ansible uses the cs library’s configuration method if credentials are not provided by the arguments api_url, api_key, api_secret. Configuration is read from several locations, in the following order. - The CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT, CLOUDSTACK_KEY, CLOUDSTACK_SECRET and CLOUDSTACK_METHOD. CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT environment variables. - A CLOUDSTACK_CONFIG environment variable pointing to an .ini file, - A cloudstack.ini file in the current working directory. - A .cloudstack.ini file in the users home directory. Optionally multiple credentials and endpoints can be specified using ini sections in cloudstack.ini. Use the argument api_region to select the section name, default section is cloudstack. See https://github.com/exoscale/cs for more information.
  • A detailed guide about cloudstack modules can be found on http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/guide_cloudstack.html
  • This module supports check mode.

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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