community.general.ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend module – Manage OVH IP LoadBalancing backends

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

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_loadbalancing_backend.

Synopsis

  • Manage OVH (French European hosting provider) LoadBalancing IP backends.

Requirements

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

  • ovh > 0.3.5

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

application_key

string / required

The applicationKey to use.

application_secret

string / required

The application secret to use.

backend

string / required

The IP address of the backend to update / modify / delete.

consumer_key

string / required

The consumer key to use.

endpoint

string / required

The endpoint to use (for instance ovh-eu).

name

string / required

Name of the LoadBalancing internal name (ip-X.X.X.X).

probe

string

Determines the type of probe to use for this backend.

Choices:

  • "none" ← (default)

  • "http"

  • "icmp"

  • "oco"

state

string

Determines whether the backend is to be created/modified or deleted.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

timeout

integer

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

Default: 120

weight

integer

Determines the weight for this backend.

Default: 8

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

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

- name: Adds or modify the backend '212.1.1.1' to a loadbalancing 'ip-1.1.1.1'
  ovh_ip_loadbalancing:
    name: ip-1.1.1.1
    backend: 212.1.1.1
    state: present
    probe: none
    weight: 8
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

- name: Removes a backend '212.1.1.1' from a loadbalancing 'ip-1.1.1.1'
  ovh_ip_loadbalancing:
    name: ip-1.1.1.1
    backend: 212.1.1.1
    state: absent
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

Authors

  • Pascal Heraud (@pascalheraud)