community.general.consul_token module – Manipulate Consul tokens

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.0).

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.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.consul_token.

New in community.general 8.3.0

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

accessor_id

string

Specifies a UUID to use as the token’s Accessor ID. If not specified a UUID will be generated for this field.

ca_path

string

The CA bundle to use for https connections

description

string

Free form human readable description of the token.

expiration_ttl

string

This is a convenience field and if set will initialize the expiration_time. Can be specified in the form of 60s or 5m (that is, 60 seconds or 5 minutes, respectively). Ingored when the token is updated!

host

string

Host of the consul agent, defaults to localhost.

Default: "localhost"

local

boolean

If true, indicates that the token should not be replicated globally and instead be local to the current datacenter.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

node_identities

list / elements=dictionary

List of node identities to attach to the token.

If not specified, any node identities currently assigned will not be changed.

If the parameter is an empty array ([]), any node identities assigned will be unassigned.

datacenter

string / required

The nodes datacenter.

This will result in effective token only being valid in this datacenter.

node_name

string / required

The name of the node.

Must not be longer than 256 characters, must start and end with a lowercase alphanumeric character.

May only contain lowercase alphanumeric characters as well as - and _.

policies

list / elements=dictionary

List of policies to attach to the token. Each policy is a dict.

If the parameter is left blank, any policies currently assigned will not be changed.

Any empty array ([]) will clear any policies previously set.

id

string

The ID of the policy to attach to this token; see community.general.consul_policy for more info.

Either this or policies[].name must be specified.

name

string

The name of the policy to attach to this token; see community.general.consul_policy for more info.

Either this or policies[].id must be specified.

port

integer

The port on which the consul agent is running.

Default: 8500

roles

list / elements=dictionary

List of roles to attach to the token. Each role is a dict.

If the parameter is left blank, any roles currently assigned will not be changed.

Any empty array ([]) will clear any roles previously set.

id

string

The ID of the role to attach to this token; see community.general.consul_role for more info.

Either this or roles[].name must be specified.

name

string

The name of the role to attach to this token; see community.general.consul_role for more info.

Either this or roles[].id must be specified.

scheme

string

The protocol scheme on which the consul agent is running. Defaults to http and can be set to https for secure connections.

Default: "http"

secret_id

string

Specifies a UUID to use as the token’s Secret ID. If not specified a UUID will be generated for this field.

service_identities

list / elements=dictionary

List of service identities to attach to the token.

If not specified, any service identities currently assigned will not be changed.

If the parameter is an empty array ([]), any node identities assigned will be unassigned.

datacenters

list / elements=string

The datacenters the token will be effective.

If an empty array ([]) is specified, the token will valid in all datacenters.

including those which do not yet exist but may in the future.

service_name

string / required

The name of the service.

Must not be longer than 256 characters, must start and end with a lowercase alphanumeric character.

May only contain lowercase alphanumeric characters as well as - and _.

state

string

Whether the token should be present or absent.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

templated_policies

list / elements=dictionary

The list of templated policies that should be applied to the role.

template_name

string / required

The templated policy name.

template_variables

dictionary

The templated policy variables.

Not all templated policies require variables.

token

string

The token to use for authorization.

validate_certs

boolean

Whether to verify the TLS certificate of the consul agent.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

action_group

Action group: community.general.consul

added in community.general 8.3.0

Use group/community.general.consul 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: partial

In check mode the diff will miss operational attributes.

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

Examples

- name: Create / Update a token by accessor_id
  community.general.consul_token:
    state: present
    accessor_id: 07a7de84-c9c7-448a-99cc-beaf682efd21
    token: 8adddd91-0bd6-d41d-ae1a-3b49cfa9a0e8
    roles:
      - name: role1
      - name: role2
    service_identities:
      - service_name: service1
        datacenters: [dc1, dc2]
    node_identities:
      - node_name: node1
        datacenter: dc1
    expiration_ttl: 50m

- name: Delete a token
  community.general.consul_token:
    state: absent
    accessor_id: 07a7de84-c9c7-448a-99cc-beaf682efd21
    token: 8adddd91-0bd6-d41d-ae1a-3b49cfa9a0e8

Return Values

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

Key

Description

operation

string

The operation performed.

Returned: changed

Sample: "update"

token

dictionary

The token as returned by the consul HTTP API.

Returned: always

Sample: {"AccessorID": "07a7de84-c9c7-448a-99cc-beaf682efd21", "CreateIndex": 632, "CreateTime": "2024-01-14T21:53:01.402749174+01:00", "Description": "Testing", "Hash": "rj5PeDHddHslkpW7Ij4OD6N4bbSXiecXFmiw2SYXg2A=", "Local": false, "ModifyIndex": 633, "SecretID": "bd380fba-da17-7cee-8576-8d6427c6c930", "ServiceIdentities": [{"ServiceName": "test"}]}

Authors

  • Florian Apolloner (@apollo13)