vyos_linkagg – Manage link aggregation groups on VyOS network devices

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• This module provides declarative management of link aggregation groups on VyOS network devices.

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
aggregate -			List of link aggregation definitions.
members -			List of members of the link aggregation group.
mode -		Choices: 802.3ad active-backup broadcast round-robin transmit-load-balance adaptive-load-balance xor-hash on	Mode of the link aggregation group.
name - / required			Name of the link aggregation group.
provider dictionary			Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli. For more information please see the Network Guide. A dict object containing connection details.
	host string / required		Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
	password string		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead.
	port integer	Default: 22	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
	ssh_keyfile path		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
	timeout integer	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.
	username string		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead.
state -		Choices: present ← absent up down	State of the link aggregation group.

Notes

Note

• Tested against VYOS 1.1.7

• For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

Examples

- name: configure link aggregation group
  vyos_linkagg:
    name: bond0
    members:
      - eth0
      - eth1

- name: remove configuration
  vyos_linkagg:
    name: bond0
    state: absent

- name: Create aggregate of linkagg definitions
  vyos_linkagg:
    aggregate:
        - { name: bond0, members: [eth1] }
        - { name: bond1, members: [eth2] }

- name: Remove aggregate of linkagg definitions
  vyos_linkagg:
    aggregate:
      - name: bond0
      - name: bond1
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
commands list	always, except for the platforms that use Netconf transport to manage the device.	The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['set interfaces bonding bond0', "set interfaces ethernet eth0 bond-group 'bond0'", "set interfaces ethernet eth1 bond-group 'bond0'"]

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. [network]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Ricardo Carrillo Cruz (@rcarrillocruz)

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