community.general.nmcli – Manage Networking¶
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.nmcli.
Synopsis¶
Manage the network devices. Create, modify and manage various connection and device type e.g., ethernet, teams, bonds, vlans etc.
On CentOS 8 and Fedora >=29 like systems, the requirements can be met by installing the following packages: NetworkManager.
On CentOS 7 and Fedora <=28 like systems, the requirements can be met by installing the following packages: NetworkManager-tui.
On Ubuntu and Debian like systems, the requirements can be met by installing the following packages: network-manager
On openSUSE, the requirements can be met by installing the following packages: NetworkManager.
Parameters¶
Examples¶
# These examples are using the following inventory:
#
# ## Directory layout:
#
# |_/inventory/cloud-hosts
# | /group_vars/openstack-stage.yml
# | /host_vars/controller-01.openstack.host.com
# | /host_vars/controller-02.openstack.host.com
# |_/playbook/library/nmcli.py
# | /playbook-add.yml
# | /playbook-del.yml
# ```
#
# ## inventory examples
# ### groups_vars
# ```yml
# ---
# #devops_os_define_network
# storage_gw: "192.0.2.254"
# external_gw: "198.51.100.254"
# tenant_gw: "203.0.113.254"
#
# #Team vars
# nmcli_team:
# - conn_name: tenant
# ip4: '{{ tenant_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ tenant_gw }}'
# - conn_name: external
# ip4: '{{ external_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ external_gw }}'
# - conn_name: storage
# ip4: '{{ storage_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ storage_gw }}'
# nmcli_team_slave:
# - conn_name: em1
# ifname: em1
# master: tenant
# - conn_name: em2
# ifname: em2
# master: tenant
# - conn_name: p2p1
# ifname: p2p1
# master: storage
# - conn_name: p2p2
# ifname: p2p2
# master: external
#
# #bond vars
# nmcli_bond:
# - conn_name: tenant
# ip4: '{{ tenant_ip }}'
# gw4: ''
# mode: balance-rr
# - conn_name: external
# ip4: '{{ external_ip }}'
# gw4: ''
# mode: balance-rr
# - conn_name: storage
# ip4: '{{ storage_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ storage_gw }}'
# mode: balance-rr
# nmcli_bond_slave:
# - conn_name: em1
# ifname: em1
# master: tenant
# - conn_name: em2
# ifname: em2
# master: tenant
# - conn_name: p2p1
# ifname: p2p1
# master: storage
# - conn_name: p2p2
# ifname: p2p2
# master: external
#
# #ethernet vars
# nmcli_ethernet:
# - conn_name: em1
# ifname: em1
# ip4: '{{ tenant_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ tenant_gw }}'
# - conn_name: em2
# ifname: em2
# ip4: '{{ tenant_ip1 }}'
# gw4: '{{ tenant_gw }}'
# - conn_name: p2p1
# ifname: p2p1
# ip4: '{{ storage_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ storage_gw }}'
# - conn_name: p2p2
# ifname: p2p2
# ip4: '{{ external_ip }}'
# gw4: '{{ external_gw }}'
# ```
#
# ### host_vars
# ```yml
# ---
# storage_ip: "192.0.2.91/23"
# external_ip: "198.51.100.23/21"
# tenant_ip: "203.0.113.77/23"
# ```
## playbook-add.yml example
---
- hosts: openstack-stage
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: Install needed network manager libs
ansible.builtin.package:
name:
- NetworkManager-libnm
- nm-connection-editor
- libsemanage-python
- policycoreutils-python
state: present
##### Working with all cloud nodes - Teaming
- name: Try nmcli add team - conn_name only & ip4 gw4
community.general.nmcli:
type: team
conn_name: '{{ item.conn_name }}'
ip4: '{{ item.ip4 }}'
gw4: '{{ item.gw4 }}'
state: present
with_items:
- '{{ nmcli_team }}'
- name: Try nmcli add teams-slave
community.general.nmcli:
type: team-slave
conn_name: '{{ item.conn_name }}'
ifname: '{{ item.ifname }}'
master: '{{ item.master }}'
state: present
with_items:
- '{{ nmcli_team_slave }}'
###### Working with all cloud nodes - Bonding
- name: Try nmcli add bond - conn_name only & ip4 gw4 mode
community.general.nmcli:
type: bond
conn_name: '{{ item.conn_name }}'
ip4: '{{ item.ip4 }}'
gw4: '{{ item.gw4 }}'
mode: '{{ item.mode }}'
state: present
with_items:
- '{{ nmcli_bond }}'
- name: Try nmcli add bond-slave
community.general.nmcli:
type: bond-slave
conn_name: '{{ item.conn_name }}'
ifname: '{{ item.ifname }}'
master: '{{ item.master }}'
state: present
with_items:
- '{{ nmcli_bond_slave }}'
##### Working with all cloud nodes - Ethernet
- name: Try nmcli add Ethernet - conn_name only & ip4 gw4
community.general.nmcli:
type: ethernet
conn_name: '{{ item.conn_name }}'
ip4: '{{ item.ip4 }}'
gw4: '{{ item.gw4 }}'
state: present
with_items:
- '{{ nmcli_ethernet }}'
## playbook-del.yml example
- hosts: openstack-stage
remote_user: root
tasks:
- name: Try nmcli del team - multiple
community.general.nmcli:
conn_name: '{{ item.conn_name }}'
state: absent
with_items:
- conn_name: em1
- conn_name: em2
- conn_name: p1p1
- conn_name: p1p2
- conn_name: p2p1
- conn_name: p2p2
- conn_name: tenant
- conn_name: storage
- conn_name: external
- conn_name: team-em1
- conn_name: team-em2
- conn_name: team-p1p1
- conn_name: team-p1p2
- conn_name: team-p2p1
- conn_name: team-p2p2
- name: Add an Ethernet connection with static IP configuration
community.general.nmcli:
conn_name: my-eth1
ifname: eth1
type: ethernet
ip4: 192.0.2.100/24
gw4: 192.0.2.1
state: present
- name: Add an Team connection with static IP configuration
community.general.nmcli:
conn_name: my-team1
ifname: my-team1
type: team
ip4: 192.0.2.100/24
gw4: 192.0.2.1
state: present
autoconnect: yes
- name: Optionally, at the same time specify IPv6 addresses for the device
community.general.nmcli:
conn_name: my-eth1
ifname: eth1
type: ethernet
ip4: 192.0.2.100/24
gw4: 192.0.2.1
ip6: 2001:db8::cafe
gw6: 2001:db8::1
state: present
- name: Add two IPv4 DNS server addresses
community.general.nmcli:
conn_name: my-eth1
type: ethernet
dns4:
- 192.0.2.53
- 198.51.100.53
state: present
- name: Make a profile usable for all compatible Ethernet interfaces
community.general.nmcli:
ctype: ethernet
name: my-eth1
ifname: '*'
state: present
- name: Change the property of a setting e.g. MTU
community.general.nmcli:
conn_name: my-eth1
mtu: 9000
type: ethernet
state: present
- name: Add VxLan
community.general.nmcli:
type: vxlan
conn_name: vxlan_test1
vxlan_id: 16
vxlan_local: 192.168.1.2
vxlan_remote: 192.168.1.5
- name: Add ipip
community.general.nmcli:
type: ipip
conn_name: ipip_test1
ip_tunnel_dev: eth0
ip_tunnel_local: 192.168.1.2
ip_tunnel_remote: 192.168.1.5
- name: Add sit
community.general.nmcli:
type: sit
conn_name: sit_test1
ip_tunnel_dev: eth0
ip_tunnel_local: 192.168.1.2
ip_tunnel_remote: 192.168.1.5
- name: Add zone
community.general.nmcli:
type: ethernet
conn_name: my-eth1
zone: external
state: present
# nmcli exits with status 0 if it succeeds and exits with a status greater
# than zero when there is a failure. The following list of status codes may be
# returned:
#
# - 0 Success - indicates the operation succeeded
# - 1 Unknown or unspecified error
# - 2 Invalid user input, wrong nmcli invocation
# - 3 Timeout expired (see --wait option)
# - 4 Connection activation failed
# - 5 Connection deactivation failed
# - 6 Disconnecting device failed
# - 7 Connection deletion failed
# - 8 NetworkManager is not running
# - 9 nmcli and NetworkManager versions mismatch
# - 10 Connection, device, or access point does not exist.
Authors¶
Chris Long (@alcamie101)