amazon.aws.route53 module – add or delete entries in Amazons Route 53 DNS service

Note

This module is part of the amazon.aws collection (version 7.4.0).

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 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.

New in amazon.aws 5.0.0

Synopsis

  • Creates and deletes DNS records in Amazons Route 53 service.

  • 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 >= 1.26.0

  • botocore >= 1.29.0

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.

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.

alias

boolean

Indicates if this is an alias record.

Mutually exclusive with ttl.

Defaults to false.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

alias_evaluate_target_health

boolean

Whether or not to evaluate an alias target health. Useful for aliases to Elastic Load Balancers.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

alias_hosted_zone_id

string

The hosted zone identifier.

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

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.

failover

string

Failover resource record sets only. Whether this is the primary or secondary resource record set. Allowed values are PRIMARY and SECONDARY

Mutually exclusive with weight and region.

Choices:

  • "SECONDARY"

  • "PRIMARY"

geo_location

dictionary

added in community.aws 3.3.0

Allows to control how Amazon Route 53 responds to DNS queries based on the geographic origin of the query.

Two geolocation resource record sets that specify same geographic location cannot be created.

Non-geolocation resource record sets that have the same values for the Name and Type elements as geolocation resource record sets cannot be created.

continent_code

string

The two-letter code for the continent.

Specifying continent_code with either country_code or subdivision_code returns an InvalidInput error.

country_code

string

The two-letter code for a country.

Amazon Route 53 uses the two-letter country codes that are specified in ISO standard 3166-1 alpha-2 .

subdivision_code

string

The two-letter code for a state of the United States.

To specify subdivision_code, country_code must be set to US.

health_check

string

Health check to associate with this record

hosted_zone_id

string

The Hosted Zone ID of the DNS zone to modify.

This is a required parameter, if parameter zone is not supplied.

identifier

string

Have to be specified for Weighted, latency-based and failover resource record sets only. An identifier that differentiates among multiple resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type.

overwrite

boolean

Whether an existing record should be overwritten on create if values do not match.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

private_zone

boolean

If set to true, the private zone matching the requested name within the domain will be used if there are both public and private zones.

The default is to use the public zone.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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.

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

record

string / required

The full DNS record to create or delete.

region

string

Latency-based resource record sets only Among resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines which region this should be associated with for the latency-based routing

Mutually exclusive with weight and failover.

retry_interval

integer

In the case that Route 53 is still servicing a prior request, this module will wait and try again after this many seconds. If you have many domain names, the default of 500 seconds may be too long.

Default: 500

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.

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.

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

aliases: command

string / required

Specifies the state of the resource record.

Choices:

  • "present"

  • "absent"

  • "get"

  • "create"

  • "delete"

ttl

integer

The TTL, in second, to give the new record.

Mutually exclusive with alias.

Default: 3600

type

string / required

The type of DNS record to create.

Choices:

  • "A"

  • "CNAME"

  • "MX"

  • "AAAA"

  • "TXT"

  • "PTR"

  • "SRV"

  • "SPF"

  • "CAA"

  • "NS"

  • "SOA"

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)

value

list / elements=string

The new value when creating a DNS record. YAML lists or multiple comma-spaced values are allowed for non-alias records.

vpc_id

string

When used in conjunction with private_zone: true, this will only modify records in the private hosted zone attached to this VPC.

This allows you to have multiple private hosted zones, all with the same name, attached to different VPCs.

wait

boolean

Wait until the changes have been replicated to all Amazon Route 53 DNS servers.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

wait_timeout

integer

How long to wait for the changes to be replicated, in seconds.

Default: 300

weight

integer

Weighted resource record sets only. Among resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines what portion of traffic for the current resource record set is routed to the associated location.

Mutually exclusive with region and failover.

zone

string

The DNS zone to modify.

This is a required parameter, if parameter hosted_zone_id is not supplied.

Notes

Note

  • 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: Add new.foo.com as an A record with 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
    ttl: 7200
    value: 1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2,3.3.3.3
    wait: true
- name: Update new.foo.com as an A record with a list of 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
    ttl: 7200
    value:
      - 1.1.1.1
      - 2.2.2.2
      - 3.3.3.3
    wait: true
- name: Retrieve the details for new.foo.com
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: get
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
  register: rec
- name: Delete new.foo.com A record using the results from the get command
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: absent
    zone: foo.com
    record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
    ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
    type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
    value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
# Add an AAAA record.  Note that because there are colons in the value
# that the IPv6 address must be quoted. Also shows using the old form command=create.
- name: Add an AAAA record
  amazon.aws.route53:
    command: create
    zone: foo.com
    record: localhost.foo.com
    type: AAAA
    ttl: 7200
    value: "::1"
# For more information on SRV records see:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
- name: Add a SRV record with multiple fields for a service on port 22222
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: "_example-service._tcp.foo.com"
    type: SRV
    value: "0 0 22222 host1.foo.com,0 0 22222 host2.foo.com"
# Note that TXT and SPF records must be surrounded
# by quotes when sent to Route 53:
- name: Add a TXT record.
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: localhost.foo.com
    type: TXT
    ttl: 7200
    value: '"bar"'
- name: Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
    value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
    alias: true
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
- name: Retrieve the details for elb.foo.com
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: get
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
  register: rec
- name: Delete an alias record using the results from the get command
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: absent
    zone: foo.com
    record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
    ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
    type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
    value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
    alias: true
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ rec.set.alias_hosted_zone_id }}"
- name: Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB and evaluates it health
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
    value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
    alias: true
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
    alias_evaluate_target_health: true
- name: Add an AAAA record with Hosted Zone ID
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    hosted_zone_id: Z2AABBCCDDEEFF
    record: localhost.foo.com
    type: AAAA
    ttl: 7200
    value: "::1"
- name: Use a routing policy to distribute traffic
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: www.foo.com
    type: CNAME
    value: host1.foo.com
    ttl: 30
    # Routing policy
    identifier: "host1@www"
    weight: 100
    health_check: "d994b780-3150-49fd-9205-356abdd42e75"
- name: Add a CAA record (RFC 6844)
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: example.com
    record: example.com
    type: CAA
    value:
      - 0 issue "ca.example.net"
      - 0 issuewild ";"
      - 0 iodef "mailto:[email protected]"
- name: Create a record with geo_location - country_code
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: '{{ zone_one }}'
    record: 'geo-test.{{ zone_one }}'
    identifier: "geohost@www"
    type: A
    value: 1.1.1.1
    ttl: 30
    geo_location:
      country_code: US
- name: Create a record with geo_location - subdivision code
  amazon.aws.route53:
    state: present
    zone: '{{ zone_one }}'
    record: 'geo-test.{{ zone_one }}'
    identifier: "geohost@www"
    type: A
    value: 1.1.1.1
    ttl: 30
    geo_location:
      country_code: US
      subdivision_code: TX

Return Values

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

Key

Description

nameservers

list / elements=string

Nameservers associated with the zone.

Returned: when state is ‘get’

Sample: ["ns-1036.awsdns-00.org.", "ns-516.awsdns-00.net.", "ns-1504.awsdns-00.co.uk.", "ns-1.awsdns-00.com."]

set

complex

Info specific to the resource record.

Returned: when state is ‘get’

alias

boolean

Whether this is an alias.

Returned: always

Sample: false

failover

string

Whether this is the primary or secondary resource record set.

Returned: always

Sample: "PRIMARY"

geo_location

dictionary

added in community.aws 3.3.0

geograpic location based on which Route53 resonds to DNS queries.

Returned: when configured

Sample: {"continent_code": "NA", "country_code": "US", "subdivision_code": "CA"}

health_check

string

health_check associated with this record.

Returned: always

identifier

string

An identifier that differentiates among multiple resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type.

Returned: always

record

string

Domain name for the record set.

Returned: always

Sample: "new.foo.com."

region

string

Which region this should be associated with for latency-based routing.

Returned: always

Sample: "us-west-2"

ttl

string

Resource record cache TTL.

Returned: always

Sample: "3600"

type

string

Resource record set type.

Returned: always

Sample: "A"

value

string

Record value.

Returned: always

Sample: "52.43.18.27"

values

list / elements=string

Record Values.

Returned: always

Sample: ["52.43.18.27"]

weight

string

Weight of the record.

Returned: always

Sample: "3"

zone

string

Zone this record set belongs to.

Returned: always

Sample: "foo.bar.com."

wait_id

string

added in amazon.aws 6.3.0

The wait ID for the applied change. Can be used to wait for the change to propagate later on when wait=false.

Returned: when changed

Authors

  • Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)

  • Mike Buzzetti (@jimbydamonk)