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community.general.netcup_dns module – Manage Netcup DNS records

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.netcup_dns.

Synopsis

• Manages DNS records via the Netcup API, see the docs https://ccp.netcup.net/run/webservice/servers/endpoint.php.

Requirements

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

• nc-dnsapi >= 0.1.3

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_key string / required	API key for authentication, must be obtained via the netcup CCP (https://ccp.netcup.net).
api_password string / required	API password for authentication, must be obtained via the netcup CCP (https://ccp.netcup.net).
customer_id integer / required	Netcup customer id.
domain string / required	Domainname the records should be added / removed.
priority integer	Record priority. Required for type=MX.
record aliases: name string	Record to add or delete, supports wildcard (*). Default is @ (e.g. the zone name). Default: "@"
solo boolean	Whether the record should be the only one for that record type and record name. Only use with state=present. This will delete all other records with the same record name and type. Choices: false ← (default) true
state string	Whether the record should exist or not. Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent"
timeout integer added in community.general 5.7.0	HTTP(S) connection timeout in seconds. Default: 5
type string / required	Record type. Choices: "A" "AAAA" "MX" "CNAME" "CAA" "SRV" "TXT" "TLSA" "NS" "DS"
value string / required	Record value.

Examples

- name: Create a record of type A
  community.general.netcup_dns:
    api_key: "..."
    api_password: "..."
    customer_id: "..."
    domain: "example.com"
    name: "mail"
    type: "A"
    value: "127.0.0.1"

- name: Delete that record
  community.general.netcup_dns:
    api_key: "..."
    api_password: "..."
    customer_id: "..."
    domain: "example.com"
    name: "mail"
    type: "A"
    value: "127.0.0.1"
    state: absent

- name: Create a wildcard record
  community.general.netcup_dns:
    api_key: "..."
    api_password: "..."
    customer_id: "..."
    domain: "example.com"
    name: "*"
    type: "A"
    value: "127.0.1.1"

- name: Set the MX record for example.com
  community.general.netcup_dns:
    api_key: "..."
    api_password: "..."
    customer_id: "..."
    domain: "example.com"
    type: "MX"
    value: "mail.example.com"

- name: Set a record and ensure that this is the only one
  community.general.netcup_dns:
    api_key: "..."
    api_password: "..."
    customer_id: "..."
    name: "demo"
    domain: "example.com"
    type: "AAAA"
    value: "::1"
    solo: true

- name: Increase the connection timeout to avoid problems with an unstable connection
  community.general.netcup_dns:
    api_key: "..."
    api_password: "..."
    customer_id: "..."
    domain: "example.com"
    name: "mail"
    type: "A"
    value: "127.0.0.1"
    timeout: 30

Return Values

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

Key	Description
records complex	list containing all records Returned: success
id integer	internal id of the record Returned: success Sample: 12345
name string	the record name Returned: success Sample: "fancy-hostname"
priority integer	the record priority (only relevant if type=MX) Returned: success Sample: 0
type string	the record type Returned: succcess Sample: "A"
value string	the record destination Returned: success Sample: "127.0.0.1"

Authors

• Nicolai Buchwitz (@nbuchwitz)

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