community.aws.elb_target_info module – Gathers which target groups a target is associated with.

Note

This module is part of the community.aws collection (version 2.6.1).

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_target_info.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • This module will search through every target group in a region to find which ones have registered a given instance ID or IP.

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

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.15.0

  • botocore >= 1.18.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

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.

Not used by boto 2 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.

get_unused_target_groups

boolean

Whether or not to get target groups not used by any load balancers.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

instance_id

string / required

What instance ID to get information for.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

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.

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

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.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to “no”, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

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

  • When no credentials are explicitly provided the AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses will fall back to its configuration files (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

  • Modules based on the original AWS SDK (boto) may read their default configuration from different files. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html for more information.

  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be defined in the configuration files.

Examples

# practical use case - dynamically de-registering and re-registering nodes

  - name: Get EC2 Metadata
    amazon.aws.ec2_metadata_facts:

  - name: Get initial list of target groups
    delegate_to: localhost
    community.aws.elb_target_info:
      instance_id: "{{ ansible_ec2_instance_id }}"
      region: "{{ ansible_ec2_placement_region }}"
    register: target_info

  - name: save fact for later
    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
      original_tgs: "{{ target_info.instance_target_groups }}"

  - name: Deregister instance from all target groups
    delegate_to: localhost
    community.aws.elb_target:
        target_group_arn: "{{ item.0.target_group_arn }}"
        target_port: "{{ item.1.target_port }}"
        target_az: "{{ item.1.target_az }}"
        target_id: "{{ item.1.target_id }}"
        state: absent
        target_status: "draining"
        region: "{{ ansible_ec2_placement_region }}"
    with_subelements:
      - "{{ original_tgs }}"
      - "targets"

    # This avoids having to wait for 'elb_target' to serially deregister each
    # target group.  An alternative would be to run all of the 'elb_target'
    # tasks async and wait for them to finish.

  - name: wait for all targets to deregister simultaneously
    delegate_to: localhost
    community.aws.elb_target_info:
      get_unused_target_groups: false
      instance_id: "{{ ansible_ec2_instance_id }}"
      region: "{{ ansible_ec2_placement_region }}"
    register: target_info
    until: (target_info.instance_target_groups | length) == 0
    retries: 60
    delay: 10

  - name: reregister in elbv2s
    community.aws.elb_target:
      region: "{{ ansible_ec2_placement_region }}"
      target_group_arn: "{{ item.0.target_group_arn }}"
      target_port: "{{ item.1.target_port }}"
      target_az: "{{ item.1.target_az }}"
      target_id: "{{ item.1.target_id }}"
      state: present
      target_status: "initial"
    with_subelements:
      - "{{ original_tgs }}"
      - "targets"

  # wait until all groups associated with this instance are 'healthy' or
  # 'unused'
  - name: wait for registration
    community.aws.elb_target_info:
      get_unused_target_groups: false
      instance_id: "{{ ansible_ec2_instance_id }}"
      region: "{{ ansible_ec2_placement_region }}"
    register: target_info
    until: (target_info.instance_target_groups |
            map(attribute='targets') |
            flatten |
            map(attribute='target_health') |
            rejectattr('state', 'equalto', 'healthy') |
            rejectattr('state', 'equalto', 'unused') |
            list |
            length) == 0
    retries: 61
    delay: 10

# using the target groups to generate AWS CLI commands to reregister the
# instance - useful in case the playbook fails mid-run and manual
#            rollback is required
  - name: "reregistration commands: ELBv2s"
    ansible.builtin.debug:
      msg: >
             aws --region {{ansible_ec2_placement_region}} elbv2
             register-targets --target-group-arn {{item.target_group_arn}}
             --targets{%for target in item.targets%}
             Id={{target.target_id}},
             Port={{target.target_port}}{%if target.target_az%},AvailabilityZone={{target.target_az}}
             {%endif%}
             {%endfor%}
    loop: "{{target_info.instance_target_groups}}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

instance_target_groups

complex

a list of target groups to which the instance is registered to

Returned: always

target_group_arn

string

The ARN of the target group

Returned: always

Sample: [“arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:eu-west-1:111111111111:targetgroup/target-group/deadbeefdeadbeef”]

target_group_type

string

Which target type is used for this group

Returned: always

Sample: [“ip”, “instance”]

targets

complex

A list of targets that point to this instance ID

Returned: always

target_az

string

which availability zone is explicitly associated with this target

Returned: when an AZ is associated with this instance

Sample: [“us-west-2a”]

target_health

complex

The target health description.

See following link for all the possible values https://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/elbv2.html#ElasticLoadBalancingv2.Client.describe_target_health

Returned: always

description

string

description of target health

Returned: if state!=present

Sample: [“Target desregistration is in progress”]

reason

string

reason code for target health

Returned: if state!=healthy

Sample: [“Target.Deregistration in progress”]

state

string

health state

Returned: always

Sample: [“healthy”, “draining”, “initial”, “unhealthy”, “unused”, “unavailable”]

target_id

string

the target ID referring to this instance

Returned: always

Sample: [“i-deadbeef”, “1.2.3.4”]

target_port

string

which port this target is listening on

Returned: always

Sample: [80]

Authors

  • Yaakov Kuperman (@yaakov-github)