elb_application_lb - Manage an Application load balancer

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Author

Synopsis

• Manage an AWS Application Elastic Load Balancer. See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-application-load-balancer/ 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.

# Create an ELB and attach a listener
- elb_application_lb:
    name: myelb
    security_groups:
      - sg-12345678
      - my-sec-group
    subnets:
      - subnet-012345678
      - subnet-abcdef000
    listeners:
      - Protocol: HTTP # Required. The protocol for connections from clients to the load balancer (HTTP or HTTPS) (case-sensitive).
        Port: 80 # Required. The port on which the load balancer is listening.
        # The security policy that defines which ciphers and protocols are supported. The default is the current predefined security policy.
        SslPolicy: ELBSecurityPolicy-2015-05
        Certificates: # The ARN of the certificate (only one certficate ARN should be provided)
          - CertificateArn: arn:aws:iam::12345678987:server-certificate/test.domain.com
        DefaultActions:
          - Type: forward # Required. Only 'forward' is accepted at this time
            TargetGroupName: # Required. The name of the target group
    state: present

# Create an ELB and attach a listener with logging enabled
- elb_application_lb:
    access_logs_enabled: yes
    access_logs_s3_bucket: mybucket
    access_logs_s3_prefix: "/logs"
    name: myelb
    security_groups:
      - sg-12345678
      - my-sec-group
    subnets:
      - subnet-012345678
      - subnet-abcdef000
    listeners:
      - Protocol: HTTP # Required. The protocol for connections from clients to the load balancer (HTTP or HTTPS) (case-sensitive).
        Port: 80 # Required. The port on which the load balancer is listening.
        # The security policy that defines which ciphers and protocols are supported. The default is the current predefined security policy.
        SslPolicy: ELBSecurityPolicy-2015-05
        Certificates: # The ARN of the certificate (only one certficate ARN should be provided)
          - CertificateArn: arn:aws:iam::12345678987:server-certificate/test.domain.com
        DefaultActions:
          - Type: forward # Required. Only 'forward' is accepted at this time
            TargetGroupName: # Required. The name of the target group
    state: present

# Create an ALB with listeners and rules
- elb_application_lb:
    name: test-alb
    subnets:
      - subnet-12345678
      - subnet-87654321
    security_groups:
      - sg-12345678
    scheme: internal
    listeners:
      - Protocol: HTTPS
        Port: 443
        DefaultActions:
          - Type: forward
            TargetGroupName: test-target-group
        Certificates:
          - CertificateArn: arn:aws:iam::12345678987:server-certificate/test.domain.com
        SslPolicy: ELBSecurityPolicy-2015-05
        Rules:
          - Conditions:
              - Field: path-pattern
                Values:
                  - '/test'
            Priority: '1'
            Actions:
              - TargetGroupName: test-target-group
                Type: forward
    state: present

# Remove an ELB
- elb_application_lb:
    name: myelb
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Status

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

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Rob White (@wimnat)