community.general.ovh_ip_loadbalancing_backend module – Manage OVH IP LoadBalancing backends

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

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_loadbalancing_backend.

Synopsis

  • Manage OVH (French European hosting provider) LoadBalancing IP backends

Requirements

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

  • ovh > 0.3.5

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

application_key

string / required

The applicationKey to use

application_secret

string / required

The application secret to use

backend

string / required

The IP address of the backend to update / modify / delete

consumer_key

string / required

The consumer key to use

endpoint

string / required

The endpoint to use ( for instance ovh-eu)

name

string / required

Name of the LoadBalancing internal name (ip-X.X.X.X)

probe

string

Determines the type of probe to use for this backend

Choices:

  • none ← (default)

  • http

  • icmp

  • oco

state

string

Determines whether the backend is to be created/modified or deleted

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

timeout

integer

The timeout in seconds used to wait for a task to be completed.

Default: 120

weight

integer

Determines the weight for this backend

Default: 8

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Adds or modify the backend '212.1.1.1' to a loadbalancing 'ip-1.1.1.1'
  ovh_ip_loadbalancing:
    name: ip-1.1.1.1
    backend: 212.1.1.1
    state: present
    probe: none
    weight: 8
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

- name: Removes a backend '212.1.1.1' from a loadbalancing 'ip-1.1.1.1'
  ovh_ip_loadbalancing:
    name: ip-1.1.1.1
    backend: 212.1.1.1
    state: absent
    endpoint: ovh-eu
    application_key: yourkey
    application_secret: yoursecret
    consumer_key: yourconsumerkey

Authors

  • Pascal Heraud (@pascalheraud)