aos_external_router – Manage AOS External Router

New in version 2.3.

DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible

version: 2.9

Why

This module does not support AOS 2.1 or later

Alternative

See new modules at https://www.ansible.com/ansible-apstra.

Synopsis

• Apstra AOS External Router module let you manage your External Router easily. You can create create and delete External Router by Name, ID or by using a JSON File. This module is idempotent and support the check mode. It’s using the AOS REST API.

Requirements

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

• aos-pyez >= 0.6.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
asn -		ASN id of the external_router.
content -		Datastructure of the External Router to create. The format is defined by the content_format parameter. It's the same datastructure that is returned on success in value.
id -		AOS Id of the External Router to manage (can't be used to create a new External Router), Only one of name, id or content can be set.
loopback -		IP address of the Loopback interface of the external_router.
name -		Name of the External Router to manage. Only one of name, id or content can be set.
session - / required		An existing AOS session as obtained by aos_login module.
state -	Choices: present ← absent	Indicate what is the expected state of the External Router (present or not).

Examples

- name: "Create an External Router"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    name: "my-external-router"
    loopback: 10.0.0.1
    asn: 65000
    state: present

- name: "Check if an External Router exist by ID"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    name: "45ab26fc-c2ed-4307-b330-0870488fa13e"
    state: present

- name: "Delete an External Router by name"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    name: "my-external-router"
    state: absent

- name: "Delete an External Router by id"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    id: "45ab26fc-c2ed-4307-b330-0870488fa13e"
    state: absent

# Save an External Router to a file
- name: "Access External Router 1/3"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    name: "my-external-router"
    state: present
  register: external_router

- name: "Save External Router into a file in JSON 2/3"
  copy:
    content: "{{ external_router.value | to_nice_json }}"
    dest: external_router_saved.json

- name: "Save External Router into a file in YAML 3/3"
  copy:
    content: "{{ external_router.value | to_nice_yaml }}"
    dest: external_router_saved.yaml

- name: "Load External Router from a JSON file"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    content: "{{ lookup('file', 'resources/external_router_saved.json') }}"
    state: present

- name: "Load External Router from a YAML file"
  aos_external_router:
    session: "{{ aos_session }}"
    content: "{{ lookup('file', 'resources/external_router_saved.yaml') }}"
    state: present

Status

• This module will be removed in version 2.9. [deprecated]

• For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

• Damien Garros (@dgarros)

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