community.general.dnsmadeeasy – Interface with dnsmadeeasy.com (a DNS hosting service).¶

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.dnsmadeeasy.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis ¶

Manages DNS records via the v2 REST API of the DNS Made Easy service. It handles records only; there is no manipulation of domains or monitor/account support yet. See: https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/integration/restapi/

Requirements ¶

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

hashlib
hmac

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
account_key string / required		Account API Key.
account_secret string / required		Account Secret Key.
autoFailover boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If true, fallback to the primary IP address is manual after a failover. If false, fallback to the primary IP address is automatic after a failover.
contactList string	Default: ""	Name or id of the contact list that the monitor will notify. The default `''` means the Account Owner.
domain string / required		Domain to work with. Can be the domain name (e.g. "mydomain.com") or the numeric ID of the domain in DNS Made Easy (e.g. "839989") for faster resolution
failover boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If `yes`, add or change the failover. This is applicable only for A records.
httpFile string		The file at the Fqdn that the monitor queries for HTTP or HTTPS.
httpFqdn string		The fully qualified domain name used by the monitor.
httpQueryString string		The string in the httpFile that the monitor queries for HTTP or HTTPS.
ip1 string		Primary IP address for the failover. Required if adding or changing the monitor or failover.
ip2 string		Secondary IP address for the failover. Required if adding or changing the failover.
ip3 string		Tertiary IP address for the failover.
ip4 string		Quaternary IP address for the failover.
ip5 string		Quinary IP address for the failover.
maxEmails integer	Default: 1	Number of emails sent to the contact list by the monitor.
monitor boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If `yes`, add or change the monitor. This is applicable only for A records.
port integer	Default: 80	Port used by the monitor.
protocol string	Choices: TCP UDP HTTP ← DNS SMTP HTTPS	Protocol used by the monitor.
record_name string		Record name to get/create/delete/update. If record_name is not specified; all records for the domain will be returned in "result" regardless of the state argument.
record_ttl integer	Default: 1800	record's "Time to live". Number of seconds the record remains cached in DNS servers.
record_type string	Choices: A AAAA CNAME ANAME HTTPRED MX NS PTR SRV TXT	Record type.
record_value string		Record value. HTTPRED: <redirection URL>, MX: <priority> <target name>, NS: <name server>, PTR: <target name>, SRV: <priority> <weight> <port> <target name>, TXT: <text value>" If record_value is not specified; no changes will be made and the record will be returned in 'result' (in other words, this module can be used to fetch a record's current id, type, and ttl)
sandbox boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Decides if the sandbox API should be used. Otherwise (default) the production API of DNS Made Easy is used.
sensitivity string	Choices: Low Medium ← High	Number of checks the monitor performs before a failover occurs where Low = 8, Medium = 5,and High = 3.
state string / required	Choices: present absent	whether the record should exist or not
systemDescription string	Default: ""	Description used by the monitor.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes ←	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes ¶

Note

The DNS Made Easy service requires that machines interacting with the API have the proper time and timezone set. Be sure you are within a few seconds of actual time by using NTP.
This module returns record(s) and monitor(s) in the “result” element when ‘state’ is set to ‘present’. These values can be be registered and used in your playbooks.
Only A records can have a monitor or failover.
To add failover, the ‘failover’, ‘autoFailover’, ‘port’, ‘protocol’, ‘ip1’, and ‘ip2’ options are required.
To add monitor, the ‘monitor’, ‘port’, ‘protocol’, ‘maxEmails’, ‘systemDescription’, and ‘ip1’ options are required.
The monitor and the failover will share ‘port’, ‘protocol’, and ‘ip1’ options.

Examples ¶

- name: Fetch my.com domain records
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
  register: response

- name: Create a record
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1

- name: Update the previously created record
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_value: 192.0.2.23

- name: Fetch a specific record
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
  register: response

- name: Delete a record
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    record_type: A
    state: absent
    record_name: test

- name: Add a failover
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    failover: True
    ip1: 127.0.0.2
    ip2: 127.0.0.3

- name: Add a failover
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    failover: True
    ip1: 127.0.0.2
    ip2: 127.0.0.3
    ip3: 127.0.0.4
    ip4: 127.0.0.5
    ip5: 127.0.0.6

- name: Add a monitor
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    monitor: yes
    ip1: 127.0.0.2
    protocol: HTTP  # default
    port: 80  # default
    maxEmails: 1
    systemDescription: Monitor Test A record
    contactList: my contact list

- name: Add a monitor with http options
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    monitor: yes
    ip1: 127.0.0.2
    protocol: HTTP  # default
    port: 80  # default
    maxEmails: 1
    systemDescription: Monitor Test A record
    contactList: 1174  # contact list id
    httpFqdn: http://my.com
    httpFile: example
    httpQueryString: some string

- name: Add a monitor and a failover
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    failover: True
    ip1: 127.0.0.2
    ip2: 127.0.0.3
    monitor: yes
    protocol: HTTPS
    port: 443
    maxEmails: 1
    systemDescription: monitoring my.com status
    contactList: emergencycontacts

- name: Remove a failover
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    failover: no

- name: Remove a monitor
  community.general.dnsmadeeasy:
    account_key: key
    account_secret: secret
    domain: my.com
    state: present
    record_name: test
    record_type: A
    record_value: 127.0.0.1
    monitor: no

Authors¶

Brice Burgess (@briceburg)

community.general.dnsmadeeasy – Interface with dnsmadeeasy.com (a DNS hosting service).¶

Synopsis¶

Requirements¶

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Examples¶