community.skydive.skydive_node module – Module which add nodes to Skydive topology

Note

This module is part of the community.skydive collection (version 1.0.0).

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.skydive.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.skydive.skydive_node.

Synopsis

  • This module handles adding node to the Skydive topology.

Requirements

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

  • skydive-client

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

host

string

To define host for the node.

metadata

string

To define metadata for the node.

name

string / required

To define name for the node.

node_type

string / required

To define type for the node.

provider

string

A dict object containing connection details.

endpoint

string / required

Specifies the hostname/address along with the port as localhost:8082for connecting to the remote instance of SKYDIVE client over the REST API.

insecure

boolean

Ignore SSL certification verification.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

password

string

Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance of SKYDIVE client.

ssl

boolean

Specifies the ssl parameter that decides if the connection type shall be http or https.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

user

string

Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance of SKYDIVE client.

seed

string

used to generate the UUID of the node

Default: “”

state

string

State of the Skydive Node. If value is present new node will be created else if it is absent it will be deleted.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • update

  • absent

Notes

Note

  • This module must be run locally, which can be achieved by specifying connection: local.

Examples

- name: create tor node
  community.skydive.skydive_node:
    name: TOR
    node_type: fabric
    seed: TOR1
    metadata:
      Model: Cisco 5300
    state: present
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

- name: update tor node
  community.skydive.skydive_node:
    name: TOR
    node_type: host
    seed: TOR1
    metadata:
      Model: Cisco 3400
    state: update
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

- name: Delete the tor node
  community.skydive.skydive_node:
    name: TOR
    node_type: host
    seed: TOR1
    metadata:
      Model: Cisco 3400
    state: absent
    provider:
      endpoint: localhost:8082
      username: admin
      password: admin

Authors

  • Sumit Jaiswal (@sjaiswal)