amazon.aws.route53_health_check module – Manage health-checks in Amazons Route53 DNS service

Note

This module is part of the amazon.aws collection (version 5.5.1).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: amazon.aws.route53_health_check.

New in amazon.aws 5.0.0

Synopsis

  • Creates and deletes DNS Health checks in Amazons Route53 service.

  • Only the port, resource_path, string_match and request_interval are considered when updating existing health-checks.

  • This module was originally added to community.aws in release 1.0.0.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.18.0

  • botocore >= 1.21.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id, aws_access_key, ec2_access_key

string

AWS access key ID.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference. Prior to release 6.0.0 these environment variables will be ignored if the profile parameter is passed. After release 6.0.0 access_key will always fall back to the environment variables if set.

The aws_access_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_access_key_id alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_access_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

The AWS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable may also be used.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found in the AWS documentation https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook.

The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

disabled

boolean

added in community.aws 2.1.0

Stops Route 53 from performing health checks.

See the AWS documentation for more details on the exact implications. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/health-checks-creating-values.html

Defaults to true when creating a new health check.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

endpoint_url

aliases: ec2_url, aws_endpoint_url, s3_url

string

URL to connect to instead of the default AWS endpoints. While this can be used to connection to other AWS-compatible services the amazon.aws and community.aws collections are only tested against AWS.

The AWS_URL or EC2_URL environment variables may also be used, in decreasing order of preference.

The ec2_url and s3_url aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_URL environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

failure_threshold

integer

The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail for Amazon Route 53 to change the current status of the endpoint from unhealthy to healthy or vice versa.

Will default to 3 if not specified on creation.

Choices:

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

  • 7

  • 8

  • 9

  • 10

fqdn

string

Domain name of the endpoint to check. Either this or ip_address has to be provided. When both are given the fqdn is used in the Host: header of the HTTP request.

health_check_id

aliases: id

string

added in community.aws 4.1.0

ID of the health check to be update or deleted.

If provided, a health check can be updated or deleted based on the ID as unique identifier.

health_check_name

aliases: name

string

added in community.aws 4.1.0

Name of the Health Check.

Used together with use_unique_names to set/make use of health_check_name as a unique identifier.

ip_address

string

IP address of the end-point to check. Either this or fqdn has to be provided.

IP addresses must be publicly routable.

measure_latency

boolean

added in amazon.aws 5.4.0

To enable/disable latency graphs to monitor the latency between health checkers in multiple Amazon Web Services regions and your endpoint.

Value of measure_latency is immutable and can not be modified after creating a health check. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/monitoring-health-check-latency.html

Choices:

  • false

  • true

port

integer

The port on the endpoint on which you want Amazon Route 53 to perform health checks. Required for TCP checks.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

A named AWS profile to use for authentication.

See the AWS documentation for more information about named profiles https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html.

The AWS_PROFILE environment variable may also be used. Prior to release 6.0.0 the AWS_PROFILE environment variable will be ignored if any of access_key, secret_key, or session_token are passed. After release 6.0.0 profile will always fall back to the AWS_PROFILE environment variable if set.

The profile option is mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token options.

purge_tags

boolean

If purge_tags=true and tags is set, existing tags will be purged from the resource to match exactly what is defined by tags parameter.

If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified, even if purge_tags=True.

Tag keys beginning with aws: are reserved by Amazon and can not be modified. As such they will be ignored for the purposes of the purge_tags parameter. See the Amazon documentation for more information https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_tagging.html#tag-conventions.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

string

The AWS region to use.

For global services such as IAM, Route53 and CloudFront, region is ignored.

The AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variables may also be used.

See the Amazon AWS documentation for more information http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region.

The ec2_region alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01

Support for the EC2_REGION environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

request_interval

integer

The number of seconds between the time that Amazon Route 53 gets a response from your endpoint and the time that it sends the next health-check request.

Choices:

  • 10

  • 30 ← (default)

resource_path

string

The path that you want Amazon Route 53 to request when performing health checks. The path can be any value for which your endpoint will return an HTTP status code of 2xx or 3xx when the endpoint is healthy, for example the file /docs/route53-health-check.html.

Mutually exclusive with type=’TCP’.

The path must begin with a /

Maximum 255 characters.

secret_key

aliases: aws_secret_access_key, aws_secret_key, ec2_secret_key

string

AWS secret access key.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference. Prior to release 6.0.0 these environment variables will be ignored if the profile parameter is passed. After release 6.0.0 secret_key will always fall back to the environment variables if set.

The secret_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_secret_access_key alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_secret_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

session_token

aliases: aws_session_token, security_token, aws_security_token, access_token

string

AWS STS session token for use with temporary credentials.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference. Prior to release 6.0.0 these environment variables will be ignored if the profile parameter is passed. After release 6.0.0 session_token will always fall back to the environment variables if set.

The security_token and profile options are mutually exclusive.

Aliases aws_session_token and session_token were added in release 3.2.0, with the parameter being renamed from security_token to session_token in release 6.0.0.

The security_token, aws_security_token, and access_token aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY and AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

state

string

Specifies the action to take.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

string_match

string

If the check type is HTTP_STR_MATCH or HTTP_STR_MATCH, the string that you want Amazon Route 53 to search for in the response body from the specified resource. If the string appears in the first 5120 bytes of the response body, Amazon Route 53 considers the resource healthy.

tags

aliases: resource_tags

dictionary

A dictionary representing the tags to be applied to the resource.

If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified.

type

string

The type of health check that you want to create, which indicates how Amazon Route 53 determines whether an endpoint is healthy.

Once health_check is created, type can not be changed.

Choices:

  • "HTTP"

  • "HTTPS"

  • "HTTP_STR_MATCH"

  • "HTTPS_STR_MATCH"

  • "TCP"

use_unique_names

boolean

added in community.aws 4.1.0

Used together with health_check_name to set/make use of health_check_name as a unique identifier.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

validate_certs

boolean

When set to false, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Setting validate_certs=false is strongly discouraged, as an alternative, consider setting aws_ca_bundle instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • Support for tags and purge_tags was added in release 2.1.0.

  • Caution: For modules, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘host’ context and not the ‘controller’ context. As such, files may need to be explicitly copied to the ‘host’. For lookup and connection plugins, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘controller’ context and not the ‘host’ context.

  • The AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses may also read defaults for credentials and other settings, such as the region, from its configuration files in the Ansible ‘host’ context (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

Examples

- name: Create a health-check for host1.example.com and use it in record
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: present
    fqdn: host1.example.com
    type: HTTP_STR_MATCH
    resource_path: /
    string_match: "Hello"
    request_interval: 10
    failure_threshold: 2
  register: my_health_check

- amazon.aws.route53:
    action: create
    zone: "example.com"
    type: CNAME
    record: "www.example.com"
    value: host1.example.com
    ttl: 30
    # Routing policy
    identifier: "host1@www"
    weight: 100
    health_check: "{{ my_health_check.health_check.id }}"

- name: create a simple health check with health_check_name as unique identifier
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: present
    health_check_name: ansible
    fqdn: ansible.com
    port: 443
    type: HTTPS
    use_unique_names: true

- name: create a TCP health check with latency graphs enabled
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: present
    health_check_name: ansible
    fqdn: ansible.com
    port: 443
    type: HTTPS
    use_unique_names: true
    measure_latency: true

- name: Delete health-check
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: absent
    fqdn: host1.example.com

- name: Update Health check by ID - update ip_address
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    id: 12345678-abcd-abcd-abcd-0fxxxxxxxxxx
    ip_address: 1.2.3.4

- name: Update Health check by ID - update port
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    id: 12345678-abcd-abcd-abcd-0fxxxxxxxxxx
    ip_address: 8080

- name: Delete Health check by ID
  amazon.aws.route53_health_check:
    state: absent
    id: 12345678-abcd-abcd-abcd-0fxxxxxxxxxx

Return Values

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

Key

Description

health_check

dictionary

Information about the health check.

Returned: success

action

string

The action performed by the module.

Returned: When a change is or would be made.

Sample: "updated"

health_check_config

dictionary

Detailed information about the health check.

May contain additional values from Route 53 health check features not yet supported by this module.

Returned: When the health check exists.

disabled

boolean

Whether the health check has been disabled or not.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: false

failure_threshold

integer

The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail for Amazon Route 53 to change the current status of the endpoint from unhealthy to healthy or vice versa.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: 3

fully_qualified_domain_name

string

The FQDN configured for the health check to test.

Returned: When the health check exists and an FQDN is configured.

Sample: "updated"

ip_address

string

The IPv4 or IPv6 IP address of the endpoint to be queried.

Returned: When the health check exists and a specific IP address is configured.

Sample: ""

port

string

The port on the endpoint that the health check will query.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: "updated"

request_interval

integer

The number of seconds between health check queries.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: 30

resource_path

string

The URI path to query when performing an HTTP/HTTPS based health check.

Returned: When the health check exists and a resource path has been configured.

Sample: "/healthz"

search_string

string

A string that must be present in the response for a health check to be considered successful.

Returned: When the health check exists and a search string has been configured.

Sample: "ALIVE"

type

string

The type of the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: "HTTPS_STR_MATCH"

health_check_version

integer

The version number of the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: 14

id

string

The Unique ID assigned by AWS to the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: "50ec8a13-9623-4c66-9834-dd8c5aedc9ba"

tags

dictionary

A dictionary representing the tags on the health check.

Returned: When the health check exists.

Sample: {"my_key": "my_value"}

Authors

  • zimbatm (@zimbatm)