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community.general.rax_dns module – Manage domains on Rackspace Cloud DNS

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.rax_dns.

Synopsis 

Manage domains on Rackspace Cloud DNS

Requirements 

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

pyrax
python >= 2.6

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
api_key aliases: password string	Rackspace API key, overrides credentials.
auth_endpoint string	The URI of the authentication service. If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
comment string	Brief description of the domain. Maximum length of 160 characters
credentials aliases: creds_file path	File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.
email string	Email address of the domain administrator
env string	Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration.
identity_type string	Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone. Default: `"rackspace"`
name string	Domain name to create
region string	Region to create an instance in.
state string	Indicate desired state of the resource Choices: `"present"` ← (default) `"absent"`
tenant_id string	The tenant ID used for authentication.
tenant_name string	The tenant name used for authentication.
ttl integer	Time to live of domain in seconds Default: `3600`
username string	Rackspace username, overrides credentials.
validate_certs aliases: verify_ssl boolean	Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints. Choices: `false` `true`

Notes 

Note

It is recommended that plays utilizing this module be run with serial: 1 to avoid exceeding the API request limit imposed by the Rackspace CloudDNS API
The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.
RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating
RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file
RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)
The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.
RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating
RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file
RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)

Examples 

- name: Create domain
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: Domain create request
      local_action:
        module: rax_dns
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        name: example.org
        email: [email protected]
      register: rax_dns

Authors

Matt Martz (@sivel)

Collection links

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community.general.rax_dns module – Manage domains on Rackspace Cloud DNS

Synopsis

Requirements

Parameters

Notes

Examples