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community.general.ovh_ip_failover – Manage OVH IP failover address

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

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.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	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	The timeout in seconds used to wait for a task to be completed. Default is 120 seconds. Default: 120
wait_completion boolean	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 Choices: no yes ← (default)
wait_task_completion integer	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) Default: 0

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)