community.aws.route53_health_check module – Manage health-checks in Amazons Route53 DNS service

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.route53_health_check.

New in version 1.0.0: of community.aws

Synopsis

  • Creates and deletes DNS Health checks in Amazons Route53 service.

  • Only the port, resource_path, string_match and request_interval are considered when updating existing health-checks.

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

disabled

boolean

added in 2.1.0 of community.aws

Stops Route 53 from performing health checks.

See the AWS documentation for more details on the exact implications. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/health-checks-creating-values.html

Defaults to true when creating a new health check.

Choices:

  • no

  • 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.

failure_threshold

integer

The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail for Amazon Route 53 to change the current status of the endpoint from unhealthy to healthy or vice versa.

Will default to 3 if not specified on creation.

Choices:

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

  • 7

  • 8

  • 9

  • 10

fqdn

string

Domain name of the endpoint to check. Either this or ip_address has to be provided. When both are given the fqdn is used in the Host: header of the HTTP request.

ip_address

string

IP address of the end-point to check. Either this or fqdn has to be provided.

IP addresses must be publicly routable.

port

integer

The port on the endpoint on which you want Amazon Route 53 to perform health checks. Required for TCP checks.

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.

purge_tags

boolean

added in 2.1.0 of community.aws

Delete any tags not specified in tags.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

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

request_interval

integer

The number of seconds between the time that Amazon Route 53 gets a response from your endpoint and the time that it sends the next health-check request.

Choices:

  • 10

  • 30

Default: 30

resource_path

string

The path that you want Amazon Route 53 to request when performing health checks. The path can be any value for which your endpoint will return an HTTP status code of 2xx or 3xx when the endpoint is healthy, for example the file /docs/route53-health-check.html.

Mutually exclusive with type=’TCP’.

The path must begin with a /

Maximum 255 characters.

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

string

Specifies the action to take.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

string_match

string

If the check type is HTTP_STR_MATCH or HTTP_STR_MATCH, the string that you want Amazon Route 53 to search for in the response body from the specified resource. If the string appears in the first 5120 bytes of the response body, Amazon Route 53 considers the resource healthy.

tags

dictionary

added in 2.1.0 of community.aws

A hash/dictionary of tags to set on the health check.

type

string / required

The type of health check that you want to create, which indicates how Amazon Route 53 determines whether an endpoint is healthy.

Choices:

  • HTTP

  • HTTPS

  • HTTP_STR_MATCH

  • HTTPS_STR_MATCH

  • TCP

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

- name: Create a health-check for host1.example.com and use it in record
  community.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: present
    fqdn: host1.example.com
    type: HTTP_STR_MATCH
    resource_path: /
    string_match: "Hello"
    request_interval: 10
    failure_threshold: 2
  register: my_health_check

- community.aws.route53:
    action: create
    zone: "example.com"
    type: CNAME
    record: "www.example.com"
    value: host1.example.com
    ttl: 30
    # Routing policy
    identifier: "host1@www"
    weight: 100
    health_check: "{{ my_health_check.health_check.id }}"

- name: Delete health-check
  community.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: absent
    fqdn: host1.example.com

Return Values

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

Key

Description

health_check

dictionary

Information about the health check.

Returned: success

action

string

The action performed by the module.

Returned: When a change is or would be made.

Sample: “updated”

health_check_config

dictionary

Detailed information about the health check.

May contain additional values from Route 53 health check features not yet supported by this module.

Returned: When the health check exists.

disabled

boolean

Whether the health check has been disabled or not.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: false

failure_threshold

integer

The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail for Amazon Route 53 to change the current status of the endpoint from unhealthy to healthy or vice versa.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: 3

fully_qualified_domain_name

string

The FQDN configured for the health check to test.

Returned: When the health check exists and an FQDN is configured.

Sample: “updated”

ip_address

string

The IPv4 or IPv6 IP address of the endpoint to be queried.

Returned: When the health check exists and a specific IP address is configured.

Sample: “”

port

string

The port on the endpoint that the health check will query.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: “updated”

request_interval

integer

The number of seconds between health check queries.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: 30

resource_path

string

The URI path to query when performing an HTTP/HTTPS based health check.

Returned: When the health check exists and a resource path has been configured.

Sample: “/healthz”

search_string

string

A string that must be present in the response for a health check to be considered successful.

Returned: When the health check exists and a search string has been configured.

Sample: “ALIVE”

type

string

The type of the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: “HTTPS_STR_MATCH”

health_check_version

integer

The version number of the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: 14

id

string

The Unique ID assigned by AWS to the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: “50ec8a13-9623-4c66-9834-dd8c5aedc9ba”

tags

dictionary

A dictionary representing the tags on the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: “{\”my_key\”: \”my_value\”}”

Authors

  • zimbatm (@zimbatm)