openstack.cloud.router module – Create or delete routers from OpenStack

Note

This module is part of the openstack.cloud collection (version 1.8.0).

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 openstack.cloud.

To use it in a playbook, specify: openstack.cloud.router.

Synopsis

  • Create or Delete routers from OpenStack. Although Neutron allows routers to share the same name, this module enforces name uniqueness to be more user friendly.

Requirements

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

  • openstacksdk

  • openstacksdk >= 0.12.0

  • python >= 3.6

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

admin_state_up

boolean

Desired admin state of the created or existing router.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

api_timeout

integer

How long should the socket layer wait before timing out for API calls. If this is omitted, nothing will be passed to the requests library.

auth

dictionary

Dictionary containing auth information as needed by the cloud’s auth plugin strategy. For the default password plugin, this would contain auth_url, username, password, project_name and any information about domains (for example, user_domain_name or project_domain_name) if the cloud supports them. For other plugins, this param will need to contain whatever parameters that auth plugin requires. This parameter is not needed if a named cloud is provided or OpenStack OS_* environment variables are present.

auth_type

string

Name of the auth plugin to use. If the cloud uses something other than password authentication, the name of the plugin should be indicated here and the contents of the auth parameter should be updated accordingly.

availability_zone

string

Ignored. Present for backwards compatibility

ca_cert

aliases: cacert

string

A path to a CA Cert bundle that can be used as part of verifying SSL API requests.

client_cert

aliases: cert

string

A path to a client certificate to use as part of the SSL transaction.

client_key

aliases: key

string

A path to a client key to use as part of the SSL transaction.

cloud

raw

Named cloud or cloud config to operate against. If cloud is a string, it references a named cloud config as defined in an OpenStack clouds.yaml file. Provides default values for auth and auth_type. This parameter is not needed if auth is provided or if OpenStack OS_* environment variables are present. If cloud is a dict, it contains a complete cloud configuration like would be in a section of clouds.yaml.

enable_snat

boolean

Enable Source NAT (SNAT) attribute.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

external_fixed_ips

list / elements=dictionary

The IP address parameters for the external gateway network. Each is a dictionary with the subnet name or ID (subnet) and the IP address to assign on the subnet (ip). If no IP is specified, one is automatically assigned from that subnet.

ip

string / required

The fixed IP address to attempt to allocate.

subnet

string

The subnet to attach the IP address to.

interface

aliases: endpoint_type

string

Endpoint URL type to fetch from the service catalog.

Choices:

  • admin

  • internal

  • public ← (default)

interfaces

list / elements=raw

List of subnets to attach to the router internal interface. Default gateway associated with the subnet will be automatically attached with the router’s internal interface. In order to provide an ip address different from the default gateway,parameters are passed as dictionary with keys as network name or ID (net), subnet name or ID (subnet) and the IP of port (portip) from the network. User defined portip is often required when a multiple router need to be connected to a single subnet for which the default gateway has been already used.

name

string / required

Name to be give to the router

network

string

Unique name or ID of the external gateway network.

required interfaces or enable_snat are provided.

project

string

Unique name or ID of the project.

region_name

string

Name of the region.

state

string

Indicate desired state of the resource

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

timeout

integer

How long should ansible wait for the requested resource.

Default: 180

validate_certs

aliases: verify

boolean

Whether or not SSL API requests should be verified.

Before Ansible 2.3 this defaulted to yes.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

wait

boolean

Should ansible wait until the requested resource is complete.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • The standard OpenStack environment variables, such as OS_USERNAME may be used instead of providing explicit values.

  • Auth information is driven by openstacksdk, which means that values can come from a yaml config file in /etc/ansible/openstack.yaml, /etc/openstack/clouds.yaml or ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml, then from standard environment variables, then finally by explicit parameters in plays. More information can be found at https://docs.openstack.org/openstacksdk/

Examples

# Create a simple router, not attached to a gateway or subnets.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: simple_router

# Create a simple router, not attached to a gateway or subnets for a given project.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: simple_router
    project: myproj

# Creates a router attached to ext_network1 on an IPv4 subnet and one
# internal subnet interface.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: router1
    network: ext_network1
    external_fixed_ips:
      - subnet: public-subnet
        ip: 172.24.4.2
    interfaces:
      - private-subnet

# Create another router with two internal subnet interfaces.One with user defined port
# ip and another with default gateway.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: router2
    network: ext_network1
    interfaces:
      - net: private-net
        subnet: private-subnet
        portip: 10.1.1.10
      - project-subnet

# Create another router with two internal subnet interface.One with user defined port
# ip and and another with default gateway.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: router2
    network: ext_network1
    interfaces:
      - net: private-net
        subnet: private-subnet
        portip: 10.1.1.10
      - project-subnet

# Create another router with two internal subnet interface. one with  user defined port
# ip and and another  with default gateway.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: router2
    network: ext_network1
    interfaces:
      - net: private-net
        subnet: private-subnet
        portip: 10.1.1.10
      - project-subnet

# Update existing router1 external gateway to include the IPv6 subnet.
# Note that since 'interfaces' is not provided, any existing internal
# interfaces on an existing router will be left intact.
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: present
    name: router1
    network: ext_network1
    external_fixed_ips:
      - subnet: public-subnet
        ip: 172.24.4.2
      - subnet: ipv6-public-subnet
        ip: 2001:db8::3

# Delete router1
- openstack.cloud.router:
    cloud: mycloud
    state: absent
    name: router1

Return Values

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

Key

Description

router

complex

Dictionary describing the router.

Returned: On success when state is ‘present’

admin_state_up

boolean

Administrative state of the router.

Returned: success

Sample: true

external_gateway_info

dictionary

The external gateway parameters.

Returned: success

Sample: {“enable_snat”: true, “external_fixed_ips”: [{“ip_address”: “10.6.6.99”, “subnet_id”: “4272cb52-a456-4c20-8f3c-c26024ecfa81”}]}

id

string

Router ID.

Returned: success

Sample: “474acfe5-be34-494c-b339-50f06aa143e4”

name

string

Router name.

Returned: success

Sample: “router1”

routes

list / elements=string

The extra routes configuration for L3 router.

Returned: success

status

string

The router status.

Returned: success

Sample: “ACTIVE”

tenant_id

string

The tenant ID.

Returned: success

Sample: “861174b82b43463c9edc5202aadc60ef”

Authors

  • OpenStack Ansible SIG