community.aws.elb_classic_lb – Creates or destroys Amazon ELB.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.aws collection (version 1.5.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • Returns information about the load balancer.

  • Will be marked changed when called only if state is changed.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

  • boto

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_logs

dictionary

An associative array of access logs configuration settings (see example).

aws_access_key

aliases: ec2_access_key, 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.

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.

Parameters can be found at https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

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

aliases: ec2_secret_key, 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.

connection_draining_timeout

integer

Wait a specified timeout allowing connections to drain before terminating an instance.

cross_az_load_balancing

boolean

Distribute load across all configured Availability Zones.

Defaults to false.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

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.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

ec2_url

aliases: aws_endpoint_url, endpoint_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.

health_check

dictionary

An associative array of health check configuration settings (see example).

idle_timeout

integer

ELB connections from clients and to servers are timed out after this amount of time.

instance_ids

list / elements=string

List of instance ids to attach to this ELB.

listeners

list / elements=dictionary

List of ports/protocols for this ELB to listen on (see example).

name

string / required

The name of the ELB.

profile

aliases: aws_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.

purge_instance_ids

boolean

Purge existing instance ids on ELB that are not found in instance_ids.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

purge_listeners

boolean

Purge existing listeners on ELB that are not found in listeners.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

purge_subnets

boolean

Purge existing subnets on ELB that are not found in subnets.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

purge_zones

boolean

Purge existing availability zones on ELB that are not found in zones.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_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

scheme

string

The scheme to use when creating the ELB.

For a private VPC-visible ELB use internal.

If you choose to update your scheme with a different value the ELB will be destroyed and recreated. To update scheme you must set wait=true.

Choices:

  • internal

  • internet-facing ← (default)

security_group_ids

list / elements=string

A list of security groups to apply to the ELB.

security_group_names

list / elements=string

A list of security group names to apply to the ELB.

security_token

aliases: aws_security_token, access_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.

state

string / required

Create or destroy the ELB.

Choices:

  • present

  • absent

stickiness

dictionary

An associative array of stickiness policy settings. Policy will be applied to all listeners (see example).

subnets

list / elements=string

A list of VPC subnets to use when creating ELB. Zones should be empty if using this.

tags

dictionary

An associative array of tags. To delete all tags, supply an empty dict.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to false, SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

wait

boolean

When specified, Ansible will check the status of the load balancer to ensure it has been successfully removed from AWS.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

wait_timeout

integer

Used in conjunction with wait. Number of seconds to wait for the ELB to be terminated. A maximum of 600 seconds (10 minutes) is allowed.

Default: 60

zones

list / elements=string

List of availability zones to enable on this ELB.

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

# Note: None of these examples set aws_access_key, aws_secret_key, or region.
# It is assumed that their matching environment variables are set.

# Basic provisioning example (non-VPC)

- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
        proxy_protocol: True
      - protocol: https
        load_balancer_port: 443
        instance_protocol: http # optional, defaults to value of protocol setting
        instance_port: 80
        # ssl certificate required for https or ssl
        ssl_certificate_id: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:server-certificate/company/servercerts/ProdServerCert"
  delegate_to: localhost

# Internal ELB example

- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-vpc"
    scheme: internal
    state: present
    instance_ids:
      - i-abcd1234
    purge_instance_ids: true
    subnets:
      - subnet-abcd1234
      - subnet-1a2b3c4d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
  delegate_to: localhost

# Configure a health check and the access logs
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    health_check:
        ping_protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        ping_port: 80
        ping_path: "/index.html" # not required for tcp or ssl
        response_timeout: 5 # seconds
        interval: 30 # seconds
        unhealthy_threshold: 2
        healthy_threshold: 10
    access_logs:
        interval: 5 # minutes (defaults to 60)
        s3_location: "my-bucket" # This value is required if access_logs is set
        s3_prefix: "logs"
  delegate_to: localhost

# Ensure ELB is gone
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

# Ensure ELB is gone and wait for check (for default timeout)
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
    wait: yes
  delegate_to: localhost

# Ensure ELB is gone and wait for check with timeout value
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
    wait: yes
    wait_timeout: 600
  delegate_to: localhost

# Normally, this module will purge any listeners that exist on the ELB
# but aren't specified in the listeners parameter. If purge_listeners is
# false it leaves them alone
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    purge_listeners: no
  delegate_to: localhost

# Normally, this module will leave availability zones that are enabled
# on the ELB alone. If purge_zones is true, then any extraneous zones
# will be removed
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    purge_zones: yes
  delegate_to: localhost

# Creates a ELB and assigns a list of subnets to it.
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    state: present
    name: 'New ELB'
    security_group_ids: 'sg-123456, sg-67890'
    region: us-west-2
    subnets: 'subnet-123456,subnet-67890'
    purge_subnets: yes
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB with connection draining, increased idle timeout and cross availability
# zone load balancing
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    connection_draining_timeout: 60
    idle_timeout: 300
    cross_az_load_balancing: "yes"
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB with load balancer stickiness enabled
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    stickiness:
      type: loadbalancer
      enabled: yes
      expiration: 300
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB with application stickiness enabled
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    stickiness:
      type: application
      enabled: yes
      cookie: SESSIONID
  delegate_to: localhost

# Create an ELB and add tags
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    tags:
      Name: "New ELB"
      stack: "production"
      client: "Bob"
  delegate_to: localhost

# Delete all tags from an ELB
- community.aws.elb_classic_lb:
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    tags: {}
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Jim Dalton (@jsdalton)