os_loadbalancer – Add/Delete load balancer from OpenStack Cloud

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

Synopsis

• Add or Remove load balancer from the OpenStack load-balancer service(Octavia). Load balancer update is not supported for now.

Requirements

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

• openstacksdk
• openstacksdk >= 0.12.0
• python >= 2.7

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Create a load balancer by specifying the VIP subnet.
- os_loadbalancer:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://identity.example.com
      username: admin
      password: passme
      project_name: admin
    state: present
    name: my_lb
    vip_subnet: my_subnet
    timeout: 150

# Create a load balancer by specifying the VIP network and the IP address.
- os_loadbalancer:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://identity.example.com
      username: admin
      password: passme
      project_name: admin
    state: present
    name: my_lb
    vip_network: my_network
    vip_address: 192.168.0.11

# Create a load balancer together with its sub-resources in the 'all in one'
# way. A public IP address is also allocated to the load balancer VIP.
- os_loadbalancer:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://identity.example.com
      username: admin
      password: passme
      project_name: admin
    name: lingxian_test
    state: present
    vip_subnet: kong_subnet
    auto_public_ip: yes
    public_network: public
    listeners:
      - name: lingxian_80
        protocol: TCP
        protocol_port: 80
        pool:
          name: lingxian_80_pool
          protocol: TCP
          members:
            - name: mywebserver1
              address: 192.168.2.81
              protocol_port: 80
              subnet: webserver_subnet
      - name: lingxian_8080
        protocol: TCP
        protocol_port: 8080
        pool:
          name: lingxian_8080-pool
          protocol: TCP
          members:
            - name: mywebserver2
              address: 192.168.2.82
              protocol_port: 8080
    wait: yes
    timeout: 600

# Delete a load balancer(and all its related resources)
- os_loadbalancer:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://identity.example.com
      username: admin
      password: passme
      project_name: admin
    state: absent
    name: my_lb

# Delete a load balancer(and all its related resources) together with the
# public IP address(if any) attached to it.
- os_loadbalancer:
    auth:
      auth_url: https://identity.example.com
      username: admin
      password: passme
      project_name: admin
    state: absent
    name: my_lb
    delete_public_ip: yes

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

• Lingxian Kong (@lingxiankong)