infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup lookup – Query Infoblox NIOS objects

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the infoblox.nios_modules collection (version 1.2.2).

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 infoblox.nios_modules.

To use it in a playbook, specify: infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup.

New in version 1.0.0: of infoblox.nios_modules

Synopsis

  • Uses the Infoblox WAPI API to fetch NIOS specified objects. This lookup supports adding additional keywords to filter the return data and specify the desired set of returned fields.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

  • infoblox-client

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

_terms

string / required

The name of the network object to be returned from the Infoblox appliance.

extattrs

dictionary

A dict object that is used to filter based on extensible attributes.

filter

dictionary

A dict object that is used to filter the returned objects.

return_fields

list / elements=string

The list of field names to return for the specified object.

Examples

- name: fetch all networkview objects
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    networkviews: "{{ lookup('infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup', 'networkview', provider={'host': 'nios01', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'password'}) }}"

- name: fetch the default dns view
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    dns_views: "{{ lookup('infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup', 'view', filter={'name': 'default'},
                   provider={'host': 'nios01', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'password'}) }}"

# all of the examples below use credentials that are  set using env variables
# export INFOBLOX_HOST=nios01
# export INFOBLOX_USERNAME=admin
# export INFOBLOX_PASSWORD=admin

- name: fetch all host records and include extended attributes
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    host_records: "{{ lookup('infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup', 'record:host', return_fields=['extattrs', 'name', 'view', 'comment']}) }}"


- name: use env variables to pass credentials
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    networkviews: "{{ lookup('infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup', 'networkview') }}"

- name: get a host record
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    host: "{{ lookup('infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup', 'record:host', filter={'name': 'hostname.ansible.com'}) }}"

- name: get the authoritative zone from a non default dns view
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    host: "{{ lookup('infoblox.nios_modules.nios_lookup', 'zone_auth', filter={'fqdn': 'ansible.com', 'view': 'ansible-dns'}) }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

obj_type

list / elements=string

The object type specified in the terms argument

Returned: always

obj_field

string

One or more obj_type fields as specified by return_fields argument or the default set of fields as per the object type

Returned: success

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.