openvswitch_port – Manage Open vSwitch ports

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Manage Open vSwitch ports

Requirements

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

• ovs-vsctl

Parameters

Examples

# Creates port eth2 on bridge br-ex
- openvswitch_port:
    bridge: br-ex
    port: eth2
    state: present

# Creates port eth6
- openvswitch_port:
    bridge: bridge-loop
    port: eth6
    state: present
    set: Interface eth6

# Creates port vlan10 with tag 10 on bridge br-ex
- openvswitch_port:
    bridge: br-ex
    port: vlan10
    tag: 10
    state: present
    set: Interface vlan10

# Assign interface id server1-vifeth6 and mac address 00:00:5E:00:53:23
# to port vifeth6 and setup port to be managed by a controller.
- openvswitch_port:
    bridge: br-int
    port: vifeth6
    state: present
  args:
    external_ids:
      iface-id: '{{ inventory_hostname }}-vifeth6'
      attached-mac: '00:00:5E:00:53:23'
      vm-id: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
      iface-status: active

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. [network]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• David Stygstra (@stygstra)