community.network.avi lookup – Look up Avi objects.

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.3.0).

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.

Synopsis

  • Given an object_type, fetch all the objects of that type or fetch the specific object that matches the name/uuid given via options.

  • For single object lookup. If you want the output to be a list, you may want to pass option wantlist=True to the plugin.

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_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: “”

obj_name

string

name of the object to query

obj_type

string / required

type of object to query

obj_uuid

string

UUID of the object to query

password

string

Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_PASSWORD.

Default: “”

tenant

string

Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: “admin”

tenant_uuid

string

UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: “”

username

string

Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_USERNAME.

Default: “”

Notes

Note

Examples

# Lookup query for all the objects of a specific type.
- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="{{ lookup('community.network.avi', avi_credentials=avi_credentials, obj_type='virtualservice') }}"
# Lookup query for an object with the given name and type.
- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="{{ lookup('community.network.avi', avi_credentials=avi_credentials, obj_name='vs1', obj_type='virtualservice', wantlist=True) }}"
# Lookup query for an object with the given UUID and type.
- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="{{ lookup('community.network.avi', obj_uuid='virtualservice-5c0e183a-690a-45d8-8d6f-88c30a52550d', obj_type='virtualservice') }}"
# We can replace lookup with query function to always the get the output as list.
# This is helpful for looping.
- ansible.builtin.debug: msg="{{ query('community.network.avi', obj_uuid='virtualservice-5c0e183a-690a-45d8-8d6f-88c30a52550d', obj_type='virtualservice') }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

_raw

list / elements=dictionary

One ore more objects returned from Avi API.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Sandeep Bandi (@sabandi)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.