community.general.consul_session module – Manipulate consul sessions

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.2).

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 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.consul_session.

Synopsis

  • Allows the addition, modification and deletion of sessions in a consul cluster. These sessions can then be used in conjunction with key value pairs to implement distributed locks. In depth documentation for working with sessions can be found at http://www.consul.io/docs/internals/sessions.html

Requirements

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

  • python-consul

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

behavior

string

The optional behavior that can be attached to the session when it is created. This controls the behavior when a session is invalidated.

Choices:

  • "delete"

  • "release" ← (default)

checks

list / elements=string

Checks that will be used to verify the session health. If all the checks fail, the session will be invalidated and any locks associated with the session will be release and can be acquired once the associated lock delay has expired.

datacenter

string

The name of the datacenter in which the session exists or should be created.

delay

integer

The optional lock delay that can be attached to the session when it is created. Locks for invalidated sessions ar blocked from being acquired until this delay has expired. Durations are in seconds.

Default: 15

host

string

The host of the consul agent defaults to localhost.

Default: "localhost"

id

string

ID of the session, required when state is either info or remove.

name

string

The name that should be associated with the session. Required when state=node is used.

node

string

The name of the node that with which the session will be associated. by default this is the name of the agent.

port

integer

The port on which the consul agent is running.

Default: 8500

scheme

string

The protocol scheme on which the consul agent is running.

Default: "http"

state

string

Whether the session should be present i.e. created if it doesn’t exist, or absent, removed if present. If created, the id for the session is returned in the output. If absent, id is required to remove the session. Info for a single session, all the sessions for a node or all available sessions can be retrieved by specifying info, node or list for the state; for node or info, the node name or session id is required as parameter.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "info"

  • "list"

  • "node"

  • "present" ← (default)

token

string

added in community.general 5.6.0

The token key identifying an ACL rule set that controls access to the key value pair.

ttl

integer

added in community.general 5.4.0

Specifies the duration of a session in seconds (between 10 and 86400).

validate_certs

boolean

Whether to verify the TLS certificate of the consul agent.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Register basic session with consul
  community.general.consul_session:
    name: session1

- name: Register a session with an existing check
  community.general.consul_session:
    name: session_with_check
    checks:
      - existing_check_name

- name: Register a session with lock_delay
  community.general.consul_session:
    name: session_with_delay
    delay: 20s

- name: Retrieve info about session by id
  community.general.consul_session:
    id: session_id
    state: info

- name: Retrieve active sessions
  community.general.consul_session:
    state: list

- name: Register session with a ttl
  community.general.consul_session:
    name: session-with-ttl
    ttl: 600  # sec

Authors

  • Steve Gargan (@sgargan)