community.general.dnsimple module – Interface with dnsimple.com (a DNS hosting service)

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 7.5.2).

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.dnsimple.

Synopsis

Aliases: net_tools.dnsimple

Requirements

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

  • dnsimple >= 2.0.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

account_api_token

string

Account API token. See account_email for more information.

account_email

string

Account email. If omitted, the environment variables DNSIMPLE_EMAIL and DNSIMPLE_API_TOKEN will be looked for.

If those aren’t found, a .dnsimple file will be looked for, see: https://github.com/mikemaccana/dnsimple-python#getting-started.

.dnsimple config files are only supported in dnsimple-python<2.0.0

domain

string

Domain to work with. Can be the domain name (e.g. “mydomain.com”) or the numeric ID of the domain in DNSimple.

If omitted, a list of domains will be returned.

If domain is present but the domain doesn’t exist, it will be created.

priority

integer

Record priority.

record

string

Record to add, if blank a record for the domain will be created, supports the wildcard (*).

record_ids

list / elements=string

List of records to ensure they either exist or do not exist.

sandbox

boolean

added in community.general 3.5.0

Use the DNSimple sandbox environment.

Requires a dedicated account in the dnsimple sandbox environment.

Check https://developer.dnsimple.com/sandbox/ for more information.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

solo

boolean

Whether the record should be the only one for that record type and record name.

Only use with state is set to present on a record.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

whether the record should exist or not.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

ttl

integer

The TTL to give the new record in seconds.

Default: 3600

type

string

The type of DNS record to create.

Choices:

  • "A"

  • "ALIAS"

  • "CNAME"

  • "MX"

  • "SPF"

  • "URL"

  • "TXT"

  • "NS"

  • "SRV"

  • "NAPTR"

  • "PTR"

  • "AAAA"

  • "SSHFP"

  • "HINFO"

  • "POOL"

  • "CAA"

value

string

Record value.

Must be specified when trying to ensure a record exists.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

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: Authenticate using email and API token and fetch all domains
  community.general.dnsimple:
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_token: dummyapitoken
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete a domain
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create a test.my.com A record to point to 127.0.0.1
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: test
    type: A
    value: 127.0.0.1
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: record

- name: Delete record using record_ids
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record_ids: '{{ record["id"] }}'
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create a my.com CNAME record to example.com
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: ''
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change TTL value for a record
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: ''
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    ttl: 600
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete the record
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: ''
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Alex Coomans (@drcapulet)