community.aws.route53 – add or delete entries in Amazons Route 53 DNS service

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.route53.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • Creates and deletes DNS records in Amazons Route 53 service.

Requirements

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

  • boto

  • boto3

  • botocore

  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

alias

boolean

Indicates if this is an alias record.

Mutually exclusive with ttl.

Defaults to false.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

alias_evaluate_target_health

boolean

Whether or not to evaluate an alias target health. Useful for aliases to Elastic Load Balancers.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

alias_hosted_zone_id

string

The hosted zone identifier.

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.

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.

failover

string

Failover resource record sets only. Whether this is the primary or secondary resource record set. Allowed values are PRIMARY and SECONDARY

Mutually exclusive with weight and region.

Choices:

  • SECONDARY

  • PRIMARY

health_check

string

Health check to associate with this record

hosted_zone_id

string

The Hosted Zone ID of the DNS zone to modify.

This is a required parameter, if parameter zone is not supplied.

identifier

string

Have to be specified for Weighted, latency-based and failover resource record sets only. An identifier that differentiates among multiple resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type.

overwrite

boolean

Whether an existing record should be overwritten on create if values do not match.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

private_zone

boolean

If set to true, the private zone matching the requested name within the domain will be used if there are both public and private zones.

The default is to use the public zone.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

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.

record

string / required

The full DNS record to create or delete.

region

string

Latency-based resource record sets only Among resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines which region this should be associated with for the latency-based routing

Mutually exclusive with weight and failover.

retry_interval

integer

In the case that Route 53 is still servicing a prior request, this module will wait and try again after this many seconds. If you have many domain names, the default of 500 seconds may be too long.

Default: 500

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

aliases: command

string / required

Specifies the state of the resource record. As of Ansible 2.4, the command option has been changed to state as default and the choices present and absent have been added, but command still works as well.

Choices:

  • present

  • absent

  • get

  • create

  • delete

ttl

integer

The TTL, in second, to give the new record.

Mutually exclusive with alias.

Default: 3600

type

string / required

The type of DNS record to create.

Choices:

  • A

  • CNAME

  • MX

  • AAAA

  • TXT

  • PTR

  • SRV

  • SPF

  • CAA

  • NS

  • SOA

validate_certs

boolean

When set to “no”, SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

value

list / elements=string

The new value when creating a DNS record. YAML lists or multiple comma-spaced values are allowed for non-alias records.

When deleting a record all values for the record must be specified or Route 53 will not delete it.

vpc_id

string

When used in conjunction with private_zone: true, this will only modify records in the private hosted zone attached to this VPC.

This allows you to have multiple private hosted zones, all with the same name, attached to different VPCs.

wait

boolean

Wait until the changes have been replicated to all Amazon Route 53 DNS servers.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

wait_timeout

integer

How long to wait for the changes to be replicated, in seconds.

Default: 300

weight

integer

Weighted resource record sets only. Among resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines what portion of traffic for the current resource record set is routed to the associated location.

Mutually exclusive with region and failover.

zone

string

The DNS zone to modify.

This is a required parameter, if parameter hosted_zone_id is not supplied.

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

- name: Add new.foo.com as an A record with 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
    ttl: 7200
    value: 1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2,3.3.3.3
    wait: yes
- name: Update new.foo.com as an A record with a list of 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
    ttl: 7200
    value:
      - 1.1.1.1
      - 2.2.2.2
      - 3.3.3.3
    wait: yes
- name: Retrieve the details for new.foo.com
  community.aws.route53:
    state: get
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
  register: rec
- name: Delete new.foo.com A record using the results from the get command
  community.aws.route53:
    state: absent
    zone: foo.com
    record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
    ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
    type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
    value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
# Add an AAAA record.  Note that because there are colons in the value
# that the IPv6 address must be quoted. Also shows using the old form command=create.
- name: Add an AAAA record
  community.aws.route53:
    command: create
    zone: foo.com
    record: localhost.foo.com
    type: AAAA
    ttl: 7200
    value: "::1"
# For more information on SRV records see:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
- name: Add a SRV record with multiple fields for a service on port 22222
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: "_example-service._tcp.foo.com"
    type: SRV
    value: "0 0 22222 host1.foo.com,0 0 22222 host2.foo.com"
# Note that TXT and SPF records must be surrounded
# by quotes when sent to Route 53:
- name: Add a TXT record.
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: localhost.foo.com
    type: TXT
    ttl: 7200
    value: '"bar"'
- name: Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
    value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
    alias: True
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
- name: Retrieve the details for elb.foo.com
  community.aws.route53:
    state: get
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
  register: rec
- name: Delete an alias record using the results from the get command
  community.aws.route53:
    state: absent
    zone: foo.com
    record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
    ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
    type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
    value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
    alias: True
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ rec.set.alias_hosted_zone_id }}"
- name: Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB and evaluates it health
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
    value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
    alias: True
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
    alias_evaluate_target_health: True
- name: Add an AAAA record with Hosted Zone ID
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    hosted_zone_id: Z2AABBCCDDEEFF
    record: localhost.foo.com
    type: AAAA
    ttl: 7200
    value: "::1"
- name: Use a routing policy to distribute traffic
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: www.foo.com
    type: CNAME
    value: host1.foo.com
    ttl: 30
    # Routing policy
    identifier: "host1@www"
    weight: 100
    health_check: "d994b780-3150-49fd-9205-356abdd42e75"
- name: Add a CAA record (RFC 6844)
  community.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: example.com
    record: example.com
    type: CAA
    value:
      - 0 issue "ca.example.net"
      - 0 issuewild ";"
      - 0 iodef "mailto:[email protected]"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

nameservers

list / elements=string

Nameservers associated with the zone.

Returned: when state is ‘get’

Sample: [“ns-1036.awsdns-00.org.”, “ns-516.awsdns-00.net.”, “ns-1504.awsdns-00.co.uk.”, “ns-1.awsdns-00.com.”]

set

complex

Info specific to the resource record.

Returned: when state is ‘get’

alias

boolean

Whether this is an alias.

Returned: always

Sample: false

failover

string

Whether this is the primary or secondary resource record set.

Returned: always

Sample: “PRIMARY”

health_check

string

health_check associated with this record.

Returned: always

identifier

string

An identifier that differentiates among multiple resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type.

Returned: always

record

string

Domain name for the record set.

Returned: always

Sample: “new.foo.com.”

region

string

Which region this should be associated with for latency-based routing.

Returned: always

Sample: “us-west-2”

ttl

string

Resource record cache TTL.

Returned: always

Sample: “3600”

type

string

Resource record set type.

Returned: always

Sample: “A”

value

string

Record value.

Returned: always

Sample: “52.43.18.27”

values

list / elements=string

Record Values.

Returned: always

Sample: [“52.43.18.27”]

weight

string

Weight of the record.

Returned: always

Sample: “3”

zone

string

Zone this record set belongs to.

Returned: always

Sample: “foo.bar.com.”

Authors

  • Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)

  • Mike Buzzetti (@jimbydamonk)