elb_network_lb – Manage a Network Load Balancer

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

Synopsis

• Manage an AWS Network Elastic Load Balancer. See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-network-load-balancer-effortless-scaling-to-millions-of-requests-per-second/ 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_network_lb:
    name: myelb
    subnets:
      - subnet-012345678
      - subnet-abcdef000
    listeners:
      - Protocol: TCP # Required. The protocol for connections from clients to the load balancer (Only TCP is available) (case-sensitive).
        Port: 80 # Required. The port on which the load balancer is listening.
        DefaultActions:
          - Type: forward # Required. Only 'forward' is accepted at this time
            TargetGroupName: mytargetgroup # Required. The name of the target group
    state: present

# Create an ELB with an attached Elastic IP address
- elb_network_lb:
    name: myelb
    subnet_mappings:
      - SubnetId: subnet-012345678
        AllocationId: eipalloc-aabbccdd
    listeners:
      - Protocol: TCP # Required. The protocol for connections from clients to the load balancer (Only TCP is available) (case-sensitive).
        Port: 80 # Required. The port on which the load balancer is listening.
        DefaultActions:
          - Type: forward # Required. Only 'forward' is accepted at this time
            TargetGroupName: mytargetgroup # Required. The name of the target group
    state: present

# Remove an ELB
- elb_network_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 not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Rob White (@wimnat)