community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info – Gather information about DigitalOcean load balancers

Note

This plugin is part of the community.digitalocean collection (version 1.13.0).

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.digitalocean.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to gather information about DigitalOcean provided load balancers.

  • This module was called digital_ocean_load_balancer_facts before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

load_balancer_id

string

Load balancer ID that can be used to identify and reference a load_balancer.

oauth_token

aliases: api_token

string

DigitalOcean OAuth token.

There are several other environment variables which can be used to provide this value.

i.e., - ‘DO_API_TOKEN’, ‘DO_API_KEY’, ‘DO_OAUTH_TOKEN’ and ‘OAUTH_TOKEN’

timeout

integer

The timeout in seconds used for polling DigitalOcean’s API.

Default: 30

validate_certs

boolean

If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Examples

- name: Gather information about all load balancers
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info:
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"

- name: Gather information about load balancer with given id
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info:
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"
    load_balancer_id: "4de7ac8b-495b-4884-9a69-1050c6793cd6"

- name: Get name from load balancer id
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_load_balancer_info:
  register: resp_out
- set_fact:
    load_balancer_name: "{{ item.name }}"
  loop: "{{ resp_out.data | community.general.json_query(name) }}"
  vars:
    name: "[?id=='4de7ac8b-495b-4884-9a69-1050c6793cd6']"
- debug:
    var: load_balancer_name

Return Values

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

Key

Description

data

list / elements=dictionary

DigitalOcean Load balancer information

Returned: success

Sample: [{“…”: null, “algorithm”: “round_robin”, “created_at”: “2017-02-01T22:22:58Z”, “id”: “4de7ac8b-495b-4884-9a69-1050c6793cd6”, “ip”: “104.131.186.241”, “name”: “example-lb-01”, “status”: “new”}]

Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)