community.general.ovh_ip_failover module – Manage OVH IP failover address

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

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.ovh_ip_failover.

Synopsis

  • Manage OVH (French European hosting provider) IP Failover Address. For now, this module can only be used to move an ip failover (or failover block) between services

Requirements

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

  • ovh >= 0.4.8

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

application_key

string / required

The applicationKey to use

application_secret

string / required

The application secret to use

consumer_key

string / required

The consumer key to use

endpoint

string / required

The endpoint to use ( for instance ovh-eu)

name

string / required

The IP address to manage (can be a single IP like 1.1.1.1 or a block like 1.1.1.1/28 )

service

string / required

The name of the OVH service this IP address should be routed

timeout

integer

The timeout in seconds used to wait for a task to be completed. Default is 120 seconds.

Default: 120

wait_completion

boolean

If true, the module will wait for the IP address to be moved. If false, exit without waiting. The taskId will be returned in module output

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

wait_task_completion

integer

If not 0, the module will wait for this task id to be completed. Use wait_task_completion if you want to wait for completion of a previously executed task with wait_completion=false. You can execute this module repeatedly on a list of failover IPs using wait_completion=false (see examples)

Default: 0

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

Examples

# Route an IP address 1.1.1.1 to the service ns666.ovh.net
- community.general.ovh_ip_failover:
    name: 1.1.1.1
    service: ns666.ovh.net
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey
- community.general.ovh_ip_failover:
    name: 1.1.1.1
    service: ns666.ovh.net
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    wait_completion: false
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey
  register: moved
- community.general.ovh_ip_failover:
    name: 1.1.1.1
    service: ns666.ovh.net
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    wait_task_completion: "{{moved.taskId}}"
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

Authors

  • Pascal HERAUD (@pascalheraud)