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community.general.clc_loadbalancer module – Create, Delete shared loadbalancers in CenturyLink Cloud

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.clc_loadbalancer.

  • Synopsis

  • Requirements

  • Parameters

  • Attributes

  • Notes

  • Examples

  • Return Values

Synopsis

  • An Ansible module to Create, Delete shared loadbalancers in CenturyLink Cloud.

Requirements

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

  • python = 2.7

  • requests >= 2.5.0

  • clc-sdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

alias

string / required

The alias of your CLC Account

description

string

A description for the loadbalancer

location

string / required

The location of the datacenter where the load balancer resides in

method

string

-The balancing method for the load balancer pool

Choices:

  • "leastConnection"

  • "roundRobin"

name

string / required

The name of the loadbalancer

nodes

list / elements=dictionary

A list of nodes that needs to be added to the load balancer pool

Default: []

persistence

string

The persistence method for the load balancer

Choices:

  • "standard"

  • "sticky"

port

string

Port to configure on the public-facing side of the load balancer pool

Choices:

  • "80"

  • "443"

state

string

Whether to create or delete the load balancer pool

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

  • "port_absent"

  • "nodes_present"

  • "nodes_absent"

status

string

The status of the loadbalancer

Choices:

  • "enabled" ← (default)

  • "disabled"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud

  • Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud

  • Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples

# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples
- name: Create Loadbalancer
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      community.general.clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: present

- name: Add node to an existing loadbalancer pool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      community.general.clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.234
            privatePort: 80
        state: nodes_present

- name: Remove node from an existing loadbalancer pool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      community.general.clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.234
            privatePort: 80
        state: nodes_absent

- name: Delete LoadbalancerPool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Delete things
      community.general.clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: port_absent

- name: Delete Loadbalancer
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Delete things
      community.general.clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

loadbalancer

dictionary

The load balancer result object from CLC

Returned: success

Sample: {"description": "test-lb", "id": "ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5", "ipAddress": "66.150.174.197", "links": [{"href": "/v2/sharedLoadBalancers/wfad/wa1/ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5", "rel": "self", "verbs": ["GET", "PUT", "DELETE"]}, {"href": "/v2/sharedLoadBalancers/wfad/wa1/ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5/pools", "rel": "pools", "verbs": ["GET", "POST"]}], "name": "test-lb", "pools": [], "status": "enabled"}

Authors

  • CLC Runner (@clc-runner)

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