community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info – Gather information about DigitalOcean load balancers

Note

This plugin is part of the community.digitalocean collection (version 1.0.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.digitalocean.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to gather information about DigitalOcean provided load balancers.

  • This module was called digital_ocean_load_balancer_facts before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
load_balancer_id
string
Load balancer ID that can be used to identify and reference a load_balancer.
oauth_token
string
DigitalOcean OAuth token.
There are several other environment variables which can be used to provide this value.
i.e., - 'DO_API_TOKEN', 'DO_API_KEY', 'DO_OAUTH_TOKEN' and 'OAUTH_TOKEN'

aliases: api_token
timeout
integer
Default:
30
The timeout in seconds used for polling DigitalOcean's API.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Gather information about all load balancers
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info:
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"

- name: Gather information about load balancer with given id
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info:
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"
    load_balancer_id: "4de7ac8b-495b-4884-9a69-1050c6793cd6"

- name: Get name from load balancer id
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info:
  register: resp_out
- set_fact:
    load_balancer_name: "{{ item.name }}"
  loop: "{{ resp_out.data | community.general.json_query(name) }}"
  vars:
    name: "[?id=='4de7ac8b-495b-4884-9a69-1050c6793cd6']"
- debug:
    var: load_balancer_name

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
data
list / elements=string
success
DigitalOcean Load balancer information

Sample:
[{'...': None, 'algorithm': 'round_robin', 'created_at': '2017-02-01T22:22:58Z', 'id': '4de7ac8b-495b-4884-9a69-1050c6793cd6', 'ip': '104.131.186.241', 'name': 'example-lb-01', 'status': 'new'}]


Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)