community.dns.hosttech_dns_record module – Add or delete a single record in Hosttech DNS service

Note

This module is part of the community.dns collection (version 3.1.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.dns.hosttech_dns_record.

New in community.dns 2.0.0

Synopsis

  • Creates and deletes single DNS records in Hosttech DNS service.

  • If you do not want to add/remove values, but replace values, you will be interested in modifying a record set and not a single record. This is in particular important when working with CNAME and SOA records. Use the community.dns.hosttech_dns_record_set module for working with record sets.

  • Records are matched by prefix / record name and value.

  • This module replaces hosttech_dns_record from community.dns before 2.0.0.

Requirements

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

  • lxml

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

hosttech_password

string

The password for the Hosttech API user.

If provided, hosttech_username must also be provided.

Mutually exclusive with hosttech_token.

hosttech_token

aliases: api_token

string

added in community.dns 0.2.0

The password for the Hosttech API user.

Mutually exclusive with hosttech_username and hosttech_password.

Since community.dns 1.2.0, the alias api_token can be used.

hosttech_username

string

The username for the Hosttech API user.

If provided, hosttech_password must also be provided.

Mutually exclusive with hosttech_token.

prefix

string

The prefix of the DNS record.

This is the part of record before zone_name. For example, if the record to be modified is www.example.com for the zone example.com, the prefix is www. If the record in this example would be example.com, the prefix would be '' (empty string).

Exactly one of record and prefix must be specified.

record

string

The full DNS record to create or delete.

Exactly one of record and prefix must be specified.

state

string / required

Specifies the state of the resource record.

Choices:

  • "present"

  • "absent"

ttl

integer

The TTL to give the new record, in seconds.

This is not used for record deletion.

Default: 3600

txt_character_encoding

string

added in community.dns 2.5.0

Whether to treat numeric escape sequences (\xyz) as octal or decimal numbers. This is only used when txt_transformation=quoted.

The default changed to decimal in community.dns 3.0.0. Before, the default used to be octal. The value decimal is compatible to RFC 1035.

Choices:

  • "decimal" ← (default)

  • "octal"

txt_transformation

string

Determines how TXT entry values are converted between the API and this module’s input and output.

The value api means that values are returned from this module as they are returned from the API, and pushed to the API as they have been passed to this module. For idempotency checks, the input string will be compared to the strings returned by the API. The API might automatically transform some values, like splitting long values or adding quotes, which can cause problems with idempotency.

The value unquoted automatically transforms values so that you can pass in unquoted values, and the module will return unquoted values. If you pass in quoted values, they will be double-quoted.

The value quoted automatically transforms values so that you must use quoting for values that contain spaces, characters such as quotation marks and backslashes, and that are longer than 255 bytes. It also makes sure to return values from the API in a normalized encoding.

The default value, unquoted, ensures that you can work with values without having to care about how to correctly quote for DNS. Most users should use one of unquoted or quoted, but not api.

Note: the conversion code assumes UTF-8 encoding for values. If you need another encoding use txt_transformation=api and handle the encoding yourself.

Choices:

  • "api"

  • "quoted"

  • "unquoted" ← (default)

type

string / required

The type of DNS record to create or delete.

Choices:

  • "A"

  • "AAAA"

  • "CAA"

  • "CNAME"

  • "MX"

  • "NS"

  • "PTR"

  • "SPF"

  • "SRV"

  • "TXT"

value

string / required

The new value when creating a DNS record.

When deleting a record all values for the record must be specified or it will not be deleted.

zone_id

integer

The ID of the DNS zone to modify.

Exactly one of zone_name and zone_id must be specified.

zone_name

aliases: zone

string

The DNS zone to modify.

Exactly one of zone_name and zone_id must be specified.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

action_group

Action group: community.dns.hosttech

added in community.dns 2.4.0

Use group/community.dns.hosttech in module_defaults to set defaults for this module.

check_mode

Support: full

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

diff_mode

Support: full

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

Examples

- name: Add a new.foo.com A record
  community.dns.hosttech_dns_record:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
    ttl: 7200
    value: 1.1.1.1
    hosttech_token: access_token

- name: Remove a new.foo.com A record
  community.dns.hosttech_dns_record:
    state: absent
    zone_name: foo.com
    record: new.foo.com
    type: A
    ttl: 7200
    value: 2.2.2.2
    hosttech_token: access_token

Return Values

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

Key

Description

zone_id

integer

The ID of the zone.

Returned: success

Sample: 23

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)