elb_classic_lb - Creates or destroys Amazon ELB.

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status
  • Author

Synopsis

• Returns information about the load balancer.
• Will be marked changed when called only if state is changed.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• boto

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Note: None of these examples set aws_access_key, aws_secret_key, or region.
# It is assumed that their matching environment variables are set.

# Basic provisioning example (non-VPC)

- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
        proxy_protocol: True
      - protocol: https
        load_balancer_port: 443
        instance_protocol: http # optional, defaults to value of protocol setting
        instance_port: 80
        # ssl certificate required for https or ssl
        ssl_certificate_id: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:server-certificate/company/servercerts/ProdServerCert"
  delegate_to: localhost

# Internal ELB example

- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-vpc"
    scheme: internal
    state: present
    instance_ids:
      - i-abcd1234
    purge_instance_ids: true
    subnets:
      - subnet-abcd1234
      - subnet-1a2b3c4d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
  delegate_to: localhost

# Configure a health check and the access logs
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    health_check:
        ping_protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        ping_port: 80
        ping_path: "/index.html" # not required for tcp or ssl
        response_timeout: 5 # seconds
        interval: 30 # seconds
        unhealthy_threshold: 2
        healthy_threshold: 10
    access_logs:
        interval: 5 # minutes (defaults to 60)
        s3_location: "my-bucket" # This value is required if access_logs is set
        s3_prefix: "logs"
  delegate_to: localhost

# Ensure ELB is gone
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

# Ensure ELB is gone and wait for check (for default timeout)
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
    wait: yes
  delegate_to: localhost

# Ensure ELB is gone and wait for check with timeout value
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
    wait: yes
    wait_timeout: 600
  delegate_to: localhost

# Normally, this module will purge any listeners that exist on the ELB
# but aren't specified in the listeners parameter. If purge_listeners is
# false it leaves them alone
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    purge_listeners: no
  delegate_to: localhost

# Normally, this module will leave availability zones that are enabled
# on the ELB alone. If purge_zones is true, then any extraneous zones
# will be removed
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    purge_zones: yes
  delegate_to: localhost

# Creates a ELB and assigns a list of subnets to it.
- elb_classic_lb:
    state: present
    name: 'New ELB'
    security_group_ids: 'sg-123456, sg-67890'
    region: us-west-2
    subnets: 'subnet-123456,subnet-67890'
    purge_subnets: yes
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB with connection draining, increased idle timeout and cross availability
# zone load balancing
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    connection_draining_timeout: 60
    idle_timeout: 300
    cross_az_load_balancing: "yes"
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB with load balancer stickiness enabled
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    stickiness:
      type: loadbalancer
      enabled: yes
      expiration: 300
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB with application stickiness enabled
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    stickiness:
      type: application
      enabled: yes
      cookie: SESSIONID
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB and add tags
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    tags:
      Name: "New ELB"
      stack: "production"
      client: "Bob"
  delegate_to: localhost

# Delete all tags from an ELB
- elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    tags: {}
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

• Jim Dalton (@jsdalton)