clc_loadbalancer – Create, Delete shared loadbalancers in CenturyLink Cloud

Synopsis

• An Ansible module to Create, Delete shared loadbalancers in CenturyLink Cloud.

Requirements

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

• python = 2.7

• requests >= 2.5.0

• clc-sdk

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
alias - / required		The alias of your CLC Account
description -		A description for the loadbalancer
location - / required		The location of the datacenter where the load balancer resides in
method -	Choices: leastConnection roundRobin	-The balancing method for the load balancer pool
name - / required		The name of the loadbalancer
nodes -	Default: []	A list of nodes that needs to be added to the load balancer pool
persistence -	Choices: standard sticky	The persistence method for the load balancer
port -	Choices: 80 443	Port to configure on the public-facing side of the load balancer pool
state -	Choices: present ← absent port_absent nodes_present nodes_absent	Whether to create or delete the load balancer pool
status -	Choices: enabled ← disabled	The status of the loadbalancer

Notes

Note

• To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud

• Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud

• Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples

# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples
- name: Create Loadbalancer
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: present

- name: Add node to an existing loadbalancer pool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.234
            privatePort: 80
        state: nodes_present

- name: Remove node from an existing loadbalancer pool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.234
            privatePort: 80
        state: nodes_absent

- name: Delete LoadbalancerPool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Delete things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: port_absent

- name: Delete Loadbalancer
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Delete things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: absent

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
loadbalancer dictionary	success	The load balancer result object from CLC Sample: {'description': 'test-lb', 'id': 'ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5', 'ipAddress': '66.150.174.197', 'links': [{'href': '/v2/sharedLoadBalancers/wfad/wa1/ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5', 'rel': 'self', 'verbs': ['GET', 'PUT', 'DELETE']}, {'href': '/v2/sharedLoadBalancers/wfad/wa1/ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5/pools', 'rel': 'pools', 'verbs': ['GET', 'POST']}], 'name': 'test-lb', 'pools': [], 'status': 'enabled'}

Status

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

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• CLC Runner (@clc-runner)

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