community.aws.route53_info – Retrieves route53 details using AWS methods

Note

This plugin is part of the community.aws collection (version 1.4.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.aws.route53_info.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • Gets various details related to Route53 zone, record set or health check details.

  • This module was called route53_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

  • boto

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aws_access_key
string
AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.
If profile is set this parameter is ignored.
Passing the aws_access_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_ca_bundle
path
The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.
Only used for boto3 based modules.
Note: The CA Bundle is read 'module' side and may need to be explicitly copied from the controller if not run locally.
aws_config
dictionary
A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.
Only the 'user_agent' key is used for boto modules. See http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto for more boto configuration.
aws_secret_key
string
AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.
If profile is set this parameter is ignored.
Passing the aws_secret_key and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
change_id
string
The ID of the change batch request.
The value that you specify here is the value that ChangeResourceRecordSets returned in the Id element when you submitted the request.
Required if query=change.
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
delegation_set_id
string
The DNS Zone delegation set ID.
dns_name
string
The first name in the lexicographic ordering of domain names that you want the list_command to start listing from.
ec2_url
string
Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.

aliases: aws_endpoint_url, endpoint_url
health_check_id
string
The ID of the health check.
Required if query is set to health_check and health_check_method is set to details or status or failure_reason.
health_check_method
string
    Choices:
  • list ←
  • details
  • status
  • failure_reason
  • count
  • tags
This is used in conjunction with query: health_check. It allows for listing details, counts or tags of various health check details.
hosted_zone_id
string
The Hosted Zone ID of the DNS zone.
Required if query is set to hosted_zone and hosted_zone_method is set to details.
Required if query is set to record_sets.
hosted_zone_method
string
    Choices:
  • details
  • list ←
  • list_by_name
  • count
  • tags
This is used in conjunction with query: hosted_zone. It allows for listing details, counts or tags of various hosted zone details.
max_items
string
Maximum number of items to return for various get/list requests.
next_marker
string
Some requests such as list_command: hosted_zones will return a maximum number of entries - EG 100 or the number specified by max_items. If the number of entries exceeds this maximum another request can be sent using the NextMarker entry from the first response to get the next page of results.
profile
string
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
Using profile will override aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token and support for passing them at the same time as profile has been deprecated.
aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token will be made mutually exclusive with profile after 2022-06-01.

aliases: aws_profile
query
string / required
    Choices:
  • change
  • checker_ip_range
  • health_check
  • hosted_zone
  • record_sets
  • reusable_delegation_set
Specifies the query action to take.
region
string
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
resource_id
list / elements=string
The ID/s of the specified resource/s.
Required if query=health_check and health_check_method=tags.
Required if query=hosted_zone and hosted_zone_method=tags.

aliases: resource_ids
security_token
string
AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.
If profile is set this parameter is ignored.
Passing the security_token and profile options at the same time has been deprecated and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.

aliases: aws_security_token, access_token
start_record_name
string
The first name in the lexicographic ordering of domain names that you want the list_command: record_sets to start listing from.
type
string
    Choices:
  • A
  • CNAME
  • MX
  • AAAA
  • TXT
  • PTR
  • SRV
  • SPF
  • CAA
  • NS
The type of DNS record.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION, AWS_CA_BUNDLE

  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html

  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples

# Simple example of listing all hosted zones
- name: List all hosted zones
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: hosted_zone
  register: hosted_zones

# Getting a count of hosted zones
- name: Return a count of all hosted zones
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: hosted_zone
    hosted_zone_method: count
  register: hosted_zone_count

- name: List the first 20 resource record sets in a given hosted zone
  community.aws.route53_info:
    profile: account_name
    query: record_sets
    hosted_zone_id: ZZZ1111112222
    max_items: 20
  register: record_sets

- name: List first 20 health checks
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: health_check
    health_check_method: list
    max_items: 20
  register: health_checks

- name: Get health check last failure_reason
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: health_check
    health_check_method: failure_reason
    health_check_id: 00000000-1111-2222-3333-12345678abcd
  register: health_check_failure_reason

- name: Retrieve reusable delegation set details
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: reusable_delegation_set
    delegation_set_id: delegation id
  register: delegation_sets

- name: setup of example for using next_marker
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: hosted_zone
    max_items: 1
  register: first_info

- name: example for using next_marker
  community.aws.route53_info:
    query: hosted_zone
    next_marker: "{{ first_info.NextMarker }}"
    max_items: 1
  when: "{{ 'NextMarker' in first_info }}"

- name: retrieve host entries starting with host1.workshop.test.io
  block:
    - name: grab zone id
      community.aws.route53_zone:
        zone: "test.io"
      register: AWSINFO

    - name: grab Route53 record information
      community.aws.route53_info:
        type: A
        query: record_sets
        hosted_zone_id: "{{ AWSINFO.zone_id }}"
        start_record_name: "host1.workshop.test.io"
      register: RECORDS

Authors

  • Karen Cheng (@Etherdaemon)