community.general.ovh_ip_failover – Manage OVH IP failover address

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.ovh_ip_failover.

Synopsis

• Manage OVH (French European hosting provider) IP Failover Address. For now, this module can only be used to move an ip failover (or failover block) between services

Requirements

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

• ovh >= 0.4.8

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
application_key string / required		The applicationKey to use
application_secret string / required		The application secret to use
consumer_key string / required		The consumer key to use
endpoint string / required		The endpoint to use ( for instance ovh-eu)
name string / required		The IP address to manage (can be a single IP like 1.1.1.1 or a block like 1.1.1.1/28 )
service string / required		The name of the OVH service this IP address should be routed
timeout integer	Default: 120	The timeout in seconds used to wait for a task to be completed. Default is 120 seconds.
wait_completion boolean	Choices: no yes ←	If true, the module will wait for the IP address to be moved. If false, exit without waiting. The taskId will be returned in module output
wait_task_completion integer	Default: 0	If not 0, the module will wait for this task id to be completed. Use wait_task_completion if you want to wait for completion of a previously executed task with wait_completion=false. You can execute this module repeatedly on a list of failover IPs using wait_completion=false (see examples)

Notes

Note

• Uses the python OVH Api https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh. You have to create an application (a key and secret) with a consummer key as described into https://docs.ovh.com/gb/en/customer/first-steps-with-ovh-api/

Examples

# Route an IP address 1.1.1.1 to the service ns666.ovh.net
- community.general.ovh_ip_failover:
    name: 1.1.1.1
    service: ns666.ovh.net
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey
- community.general.ovh_ip_failover:
    name: 1.1.1.1
    service: ns666.ovh.net
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    wait_completion: false
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey
  register: moved
- community.general.ovh_ip_failover:
    name: 1.1.1.1
    service: ns666.ovh.net
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    wait_task_completion: "{{moved.taskId}}"
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

Authors

• Pascal HERAUD (@pascalheraud)