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kubernetes.core.k8s module – Manage Kubernetes (K8s) objects

Note

This module is part of the kubernetes.core collection (version 2.4.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: kubernetes.core.k8s.

Synopsis 

Use the Kubernetes Python client to perform CRUD operations on K8s objects.
Pass the object definition from a source file or inline. See examples for reading files and using Jinja templates or vault-encrypted files.
Access to the full range of K8s APIs.
Use the kubernetes.core.k8s_info module to obtain a list of items about an object of type kind
Authenticate using either a config file, certificates, password or token.
Supports check mode.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Requirements 

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

python >= 3.6
kubernetes >= 12.0.0
PyYAML >= 3.11
jsonpatch

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
api_key string	Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_API_KEY environment variable.
api_version aliases: api, version string	Use to specify the API version. Use to create, delete, or discover an object without providing a full resource definition. Use in conjunction with kind, name, and namespace to identify a specific object. If resource definition is provided, the apiVersion value from the resource_definition will override this option. Default: `"v1"`
append_hash boolean	Whether to append a hash to a resource name for immutability purposes Applies only to ConfigMap and Secret resources The parameter will be silently ignored for other resource kinds The full definition of an object is needed to generate the hash - this means that deleting an object created with append_hash will only work if the same object is passed with state=absent (alternatively, just use state=absent with the name including the generated hash and append_hash=no) Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
apply boolean	`apply` compares the desired resource definition with the previously supplied resource definition, ignoring properties that are automatically generated `apply` works better with Services than ‘force=yes’ mutually exclusive with `merge_type` Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
ca_cert aliases: ssl_ca_cert path	Path to a CA certificate used to authenticate with the API. The full certificate chain must be provided to avoid certificate validation errors. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT environment variable.
client_cert aliases: cert_file path	Path to a certificate used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CERT_FILE environment variable.
client_key aliases: key_file path	Path to a key file used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KEY_FILE environment variable.
context string	The name of a context found in the config file. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT environment variable.
continue_on_error boolean added in kubernetes.core 2.0.0	Whether to continue on creation/deletion errors when multiple resources are defined. This has no effect on the validation step which is controlled by the `validate.fail_on_error` parameter. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
delete_options dictionary added in kubernetes.core 1.2.0	Configure behavior when deleting an object. Only used when state=absent.
gracePeriodSeconds integer	Specify how many seconds to wait before forcefully terminating. Only implemented for Pod resources. If not specified, the default grace period for the object type will be used.
preconditions dictionary	Specify condition that must be met for delete to proceed.
resourceVersion string	Specify the resource version of the target object.
uid string	Specify the UID of the target object.
propagationPolicy string	Use to control how dependent objects are deleted. If not specified, the default policy for the object type will be used. This may vary across object types. Choices: `"Foreground"` `"Background"` `"Orphan"`
force boolean	If set to `yes`, and state is `present`, an existing object will be replaced. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
generate_name string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0	Use to specify the basis of an object name and random characters will be added automatically on server to generate a unique name. This option is ignored when state is not set to `present` or when apply is set to `yes`. If resource definition is provided, the metadata.generateName value from the resource_definition will override this option. If resource definition is provided, and contains metadata.name, this option is ignored. mutually exclusive with `name`.
host string	Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_HOST environment variable.
impersonate_groups list / elements=string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0	Group(s) to impersonate for the operation. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_GROUPS environment. Example: Group1,Group2
impersonate_user string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0	Username to impersonate for the operation. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_IMPERSONATE_USER environment.
kind string	Use to specify an object model. Use to create, delete, or discover an object without providing a full resource definition. Use in conjunction with api_version, name, and namespace to identify a specific object. If resource definition is provided, the kind value from the resource_definition will override this option.
kubeconfig any	Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the Kubernetes client will attempt to load the default configuration file from ~/.kube/config. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable. Multiple Kubernetes config file can be provided using separator ‘;’ for Windows platform or ‘:’ for others platforms. The kubernetes configuration can be provided as dictionary. This feature requires a python kubernetes client version >= 17.17.0. Added in version 2.2.0.
label_selectors list / elements=string added in kubernetes.core 2.2.0	Selector (label query) to filter on.
merge_type list / elements=string	Whether to override the default patch merge approach with a specific type. By default, the strategic merge will typically be used. For example, Custom Resource Definitions typically aren’t updatable by the usual strategic merge. You may want to use `merge` if you see “strategic merge patch format is not supported” See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/#use-a-json-merge-patch-to-update-a-deployment If more than one `merge_type` is given, the merge_types will be tried in order. This defaults to `['strategic-merge', 'merge']`, which is ideal for using the same parameters on resource kinds that combine Custom Resources and built-in resources. mutually exclusive with `apply` merge_type=json is deprecated and will be removed in version 3.0.0. Please use kubernetes.core.k8s_json_patch instead. Choices: `"json"` `"merge"` `"strategic-merge"`
name string	Use to specify an object name. Use to create, delete, or discover an object without providing a full resource definition. Use in conjunction with api_version, kind and namespace to identify a specific object. If resource definition is provided, the metadata.name value from the resource_definition will override this option.
namespace string	Use to specify an object namespace. Useful when creating, deleting, or discovering an object without providing a full resource definition. Use in conjunction with api_version, kind, and name to identify a specific object. If resource definition is provided, the metadata.namespace value from the resource_definition will override this option.
no_proxy string added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0	The comma separated list of hosts/domains/IP/CIDR that shouldn’t go through proxy. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_NO_PROXY environment variable. Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. NO_PROXY). This feature requires kubernetes>=19.15.0. When kubernetes library is less than 19.15.0, it fails even no_proxy set in correct. example value is “localhost,.local,.example.com,127.0.0.1,127.0.0.0/8,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12,192.168.0.0/16”
password string	Provide a password for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PASSWORD environment variable. Please read the description of the `username` option for a discussion of when this option is applicable.
persist_config boolean	Whether or not to save the kube config refresh tokens. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PERSIST_CONFIG environment variable. When the k8s context is using a user credentials with refresh tokens (like oidc or gke/gcloud auth), the token is refreshed by the k8s python client library but not saved by default. So the old refresh token can expire and the next auth might fail. Setting this flag to true will tell the k8s python client to save the new refresh token to the kube config file. Default to false. Please note that the current version of the k8s python client library does not support setting this flag to True yet. The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169 Choices: `false` `true`
proxy string	The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY environment variable. Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).
proxy_headers dictionary added in kubernetes.core 2.0.0	The Header used for the HTTP proxy. Documentation can be found here https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/urllib3.util.html?highlight=proxy_headers#urllib3.util.make_headers.
basic_auth string	Colon-separated username:password for basic authentication header. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_BASIC_AUTH environment.
proxy_basic_auth string	Colon-separated username:password for proxy basic authentication header. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_PROXY_BASIC_AUTH environment.
user_agent string	String representing the user-agent you want, such as foo/1.0. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY_HEADERS_USER_AGENT environment.
resource_definition aliases: definition, inline string	Provide a valid YAML definition (either as a string, list, or dict) for an object when creating or updating. NOTE: kind, api_version, name, and namespace will be overwritten by corresponding values found in the provided resource_definition.
server_side_apply dictionary added in kubernetes.core 2.3.0	When this option is set, apply runs in the server instead of the client. Ignored if `apply` is not set or is set to False. This option requires “kubernetes >= 19.15.0”.
field_manager string / required	Name of the manager used to track field ownership.
force_conflicts boolean	A conflict is a special status error that occurs when an Server Side Apply operation tries to change a field, which another user also claims to manage. When set to True, server-side apply will force the changes against conflicts. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
src path	Provide a path to a file containing a valid YAML definition of an object or objects to be created or updated. Mutually exclusive with resource_definition. NOTE: kind, api_version, name, and namespace will be overwritten by corresponding values found in the configuration read in from the src file. Reads from the local file system. To read from the Ansible controller’s file system, including vaulted files, use the file lookup plugin or template lookup plugin, combined with the from_yaml filter, and pass the result to resource_definition. See Examples below. The URL to manifest files that can be used to create the resource. Added in version 2.4.0. Mutually exclusive with template in case of kubernetes.core.k8s module.
state string	Determines if an object should be created, patched, or deleted. When set to `present`, an object will be created, if it does not already exist. If set to `absent`, an existing object will be deleted. If set to `present`, an existing object will be patched, if its attributes differ from those specified using resource_definition or src. `patched` state is an existing resource that has a given patch applied. If the resource doesn’t exist, silently skip it (do not raise an error). Choices: `"absent"` `"present"` ← (default) `"patched"`
template any	Provide a valid YAML template definition file for an object when creating or updating. Value can be provided as string or dictionary. The parameter accepts multiple template files. Added in version 2.0.0. Mutually exclusive with `src` and `resource_definition`. Template files needs to be present on the Ansible Controller’s file system. Additional parameters can be specified using dictionary. Valid additional parameters - `newline_sequence` (str): Specify the newline sequence to use for templating files. valid choices are “\n”, “\r”, “\r\n”. Default value “\n”. `block_start_string` (str): The string marking the beginning of a block. Default value “{%”. `block_end_string` (str): The string marking the end of a block. Default value “%}”. `variable_start_string` (str): The string marking the beginning of a print statement. Default value “{{“. `variable_end_string` (str): The string marking the end of a print statement. Default value “}}”. `trim_blocks` (bool): Determine when newlines should be removed from blocks. When set to `yes` the first newline after a block is removed (block, not variable tag!). Default value is true. `lstrip_blocks` (bool): Determine when leading spaces and tabs should be stripped. When set to `yes` leading spaces and tabs are stripped from the start of a line to a block. This functionality requires Jinja 2.7 or newer. Default value is false.
username string	Provide a username for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_USERNAME environment variable. Please note that this only works with clusters configured to use HTTP Basic Auth. If your cluster has a different form of authentication (e.g. OAuth2 in OpenShift), this option will not work as expected and you should look into the community.okd.k8s_auth module, as that might do what you need.
validate dictionary	how (if at all) to validate the resource definition against the kubernetes schema. Requires the kubernetes-validate python module.
fail_on_error boolean	whether to fail on validation errors. Choices: `false` `true`
strict boolean	whether to fail when passing unexpected properties Choices: `false` `true` ← (default)
version string	version of Kubernetes to validate against. defaults to Kubernetes server version
validate_certs aliases: verify_ssl boolean	Whether or not to verify the API server’s SSL certificates. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL environment variable. Choices: `false` `true`
wait boolean	Whether to wait for certain resource kinds to end up in the desired state. By default the module exits once Kubernetes has received the request. Implemented for `state=present` for `Deployment`, `DaemonSet` and `Pod`, and for `state=absent` for all resource kinds. For resource kinds without an implementation, `wait` returns immediately unless `wait_condition` is set. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
wait_condition dictionary	Specifies a custom condition on the status to wait for. Ignored if `wait` is not set or is set to False.
reason string	The value of the reason field in your desired condition For example, if a `Deployment` is paused, The `Progressing` `type` will have the `DeploymentPaused` reason. The possible reasons in a condition are specific to each resource type in Kubernetes. See the API documentation of the status field for a given resource to see possible choices.
status string	The value of the status field in your desired condition. For example, if a `Deployment` is paused, the `Progressing` `type` will have the `Unknown` status. Choices: `"True"` ← (default) `"False"` `"Unknown"`
type string	The type of condition to wait for. For example, the `Pod` resource will set the `Ready` condition (among others). Required if you are specifying a `wait_condition`. If left empty, the `wait_condition` field will be ignored. The possible types for a condition are specific to each resource type in Kubernetes. See the API documentation of the status field for a given resource to see possible choices.
wait_sleep integer	Number of seconds to sleep between checks. Default: `5`
wait_timeout integer	How long in seconds to wait for the resource to end up in the desired state. Ignored if `wait` is not set. Default: `120`

Notes 

Note

To avoid SSL certificate validation errors when validate_certs is True, the full certificate chain for the API server must be provided via ca_cert or in the kubeconfig file.

Examples 

- name: Create a k8s namespace
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    name: testing
    api_version: v1
    kind: Namespace
    state: present

- name: Create a Service object from an inline definition
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    definition:
      apiVersion: v1
      kind: Service
      metadata:
        name: web
        namespace: testing
        labels:
          app: galaxy
          service: web
      spec:
        selector:
          app: galaxy
          service: web
        ports:
        - protocol: TCP
          targetPort: 8000
          name: port-8000-tcp
          port: 8000

- name: Remove an existing Service object
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: absent
    api_version: v1
    kind: Service
    namespace: testing
    name: web

# Passing the object definition from a file

- name: Create a Deployment by reading the definition from a local file
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    src: /testing/deployment.yml

- name: >-
    Read definition file from the Ansible controller file system.
    If the definition file has been encrypted with Ansible Vault it will automatically be decrypted.
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    definition: "{{ lookup('file', '/testing/deployment.yml') | from_yaml }}"

- name: >-
    (Alternative) Read definition file from the Ansible controller file system.
    In this case, the definition file contains multiple YAML documents, separated by ---.
    If the definition file has been encrypted with Ansible Vault it will automatically be decrypted.
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    definition: "{{ lookup('file', '/testing/deployment.yml') | from_yaml_all }}"

- name: Read definition template file from the Ansible controller file system
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    template: '/testing/deployment.j2'

- name: Read definition template file from the Ansible controller file system that uses custom start/end strings
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    template:
      path: '/testing/deployment.j2'
      variable_start_string: '[['
      variable_end_string: ']]'

- name: Read multiple definition template file from the Ansible controller file system
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    template:
      - path: '/testing/deployment_one.j2'
      - path: '/testing/deployment_two.j2'
        variable_start_string: '[['
        variable_end_string: ']]'

- name: fail on validation errors
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    definition: "{{ lookup('template', '/testing/deployment.yml') | from_yaml }}"
    validate:
      fail_on_error: yes

- name: warn on validation errors, check for unexpected properties
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    definition: "{{ lookup('template', '/testing/deployment.yml') | from_yaml }}"
    validate:
      fail_on_error: no
      strict: yes

# Download and apply manifest
- name: Download metrics-server manifest to the cluster.
  ansible.builtin.get_url:
    url: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/metrics-server/releases/latest/download/components.yaml
    dest: ~/metrics-server.yaml
    mode: '0664'

- name: Apply metrics-server manifest to the cluster.
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    src: ~/metrics-server.yaml

# Wait for a Deployment to pause before continuing
- name: Pause a Deployment.
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    definition:
      apiVersion: apps/v1
      kind: Deployment
      metadata:
        name: example
        namespace: testing
      spec:
        paused: True
    wait: yes
    wait_condition:
      type: Progressing
      status: Unknown
      reason: DeploymentPaused

# Patch existing namespace : add label
- name: add label to existing namespace
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: patched
    kind: Namespace
    name: patch_namespace
    definition:
      metadata:
        labels:
          support: patch

# Create object using generateName
- name: create resource using name generated by the server
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    state: present
    generate_name: pod-
    definition:
      apiVersion: v1
      kind: Pod
      spec:
        containers:
        - name: py
          image: python:3.7-alpine
          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent

# Server side apply
- name: Create configmap using server side apply
  kubernetes.core.k8s:
    namespace: testing
    definition:
      apiVersion: v1
      kind: ConfigMap
      metadata:
        name: my-configmap
    apply: yes
    server_side_apply:
      field_manager: ansible

Return Values 

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

Key	Description
result complex	The created, patched, or otherwise present object. Will be empty in the case of a deletion. Returned: success
api_version string	The versioned schema of this representation of an object. Returned: success
duration integer	elapsed time of task in seconds Returned: when `wait` is true Sample: `48`
error complex	error while trying to create/delete the object. Returned: error
items list / elements=string	Returned only when multiple yaml documents are passed to src or resource_definition Returned: when resource_definition or src contains list of objects
kind string	Represents the REST resource this object represents. Returned: success
metadata complex	Standard object metadata. Includes name, namespace, annotations, labels, etc. Returned: success
spec complex	Specific attributes of the object. Will vary based on the api_version and kind. Returned: success
status complex	Current status details for the object. Returned: success

Authors

Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
Fabian von Feilitzsch (@fabianvf)

kubernetes.core.k8s module – Manage Kubernetes (K8s) objects

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