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community.network.avi_role – Module for setup of Role Avi RESTful Object

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.0.0).

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.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.avi_role.

Synopsis

• This module is used to configure Role object

• more examples at https://github.com/avinetworks/devops

Requirements

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

• avisdk

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_context dictionary	Avi API context that includes current session ID and CSRF Token. This allows user to perform single login and re-use the session.
api_version string	Avi API version of to use for Avi API and objects. Default: “16.4.4”
avi_api_patch_op string	Patch operation to use when using avi_api_update_method as patch. Choices: add replace delete
avi_api_update_method string	Default method for object update is HTTP PUT. Setting to patch will override that behavior to use HTTP PATCH. Choices: put ← (default) patch
avi_credentials dictionary	Avi Credentials dictionary which can be used in lieu of enumerating Avi Controller login details.
api_version string	Avi controller version Default: “16.4.4”
controller string	Avi controller IP or SQDN
csrftoken string	Avi controller API csrftoken to reuse existing session with session id
password string	Avi controller password
port string	Avi controller port
session_id string	Avi controller API session id to reuse existing session with csrftoken
tenant string	Avi controller tenant Default: “admin”
tenant_uuid string	Avi controller tenant UUID
timeout string	Avi controller request timeout Default: 300
token string	Avi controller API token
username string	Avi controller username
avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact boolean	It disables avi session information to be cached as a fact. Choices: no ← (default) yes
controller string	IP address or hostname of the controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_CONTROLLER. Default: “”
name string / required	Name of the object.
password string	Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_PASSWORD. Default: “”
privileges string	List of permission.
state string	The state that should be applied on the entity. Choices: absent present ← (default)
tenant string	Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object. Default: “admin”
tenant_ref string	It is a reference to an object of type tenant.
tenant_uuid string	UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object. Default: “”
url string	Avi controller URL of the object.
username string	Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_USERNAME. Default: “”
uuid string	Unique object identifier of the object.

Notes

Note

• For more information on using Ansible to manage Avi Network devices see https://www.ansible.com/ansible-avi-networks.

Examples

- name: Example to create Role object
  community.network.avi_role:
    controller: 10.10.25.42
    username: admin
    password: something
    state: present
    name: sample_role

Return Values

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

Key	Description
obj dictionary	Role (api/role) object Returned: success, changed

Authors

• Gaurav Rastogi (@grastogi23) <grastogi@avinetworks.com>