bigip_partition – Manage BIG-IP partitions

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • Manage BIG-IP partitions.

Requirements

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

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.16

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
-
The description to attach to the Partition.
name
- / required
Name of the partition
password
- / required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.

aliases: pass, pwd
provider
-
added in 2.5
 Default:
null
A dict object containing connection details.
password
- / required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_PASSWORD.

aliases: pass, pwd
server
- / required
The BIG-IP host.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.
server_port
-
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.
ssh_keyfile
-
Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE.
timeout
-
Default:
10
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
transport
- / required
    Choices:
  • rest
  • cli ←
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
user
- / required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.
route_domain
-
The default Route Domain to assign to the Partition. If no route domain is specified, then the default route domain for the system (typically zero) will be used only when creating a new partition.
server
- / required
The BIG-IP host.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER.
server_port
-
added in 2.2
 Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT.
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the partition should exist or not.
user
- / required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_USER.
validate_certs
boolean
added in 2.0
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates are not validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
You may omit this option by setting the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS.

Notes

Note

  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12
  • For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
  • Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as pip install f5-sdk.
  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
  • The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.

Examples

- name: Create partition "foo" using the default route domain
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create partition "bar" using a custom route domain
  bigip_partition:
    name: bar
    route_domain: 3
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change route domain of partition "foo"
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    route_domain: 8
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set a description for partition "foo"
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    description: Tenant CompanyA
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete the "foo" partition
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
description
string
 changed and success
The description of the partition.

Sample:
Example partition
route_domain
integer
 changed and success
Name of the route domain associated with the partition.


Status

Authors

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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