community.network.avi_network module – Module for setup of Network Avi RESTful Object

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.1.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.avi_network.

Note

The community.network collection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 12. See the discussion thread for more information.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This collection and all content in it is unmaintained and deprecated.

Alternative:

Unknown.

Synopsis

Aliases: network.avi.avi_network

Requirements

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

  • avisdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_context

dictionary

Avi API context that includes current session ID and CSRF Token.

This allows user to perform single login and re-use the session.

api_version

string

Avi API version of to use for Avi API and objects.

Default: "16.4.4"

avi_api_patch_op

string

Patch operation to use when using avi_api_update_method as patch.

Choices:

  • "add"

  • "replace"

  • "delete"

avi_api_update_method

string

Default method for object update is HTTP PUT.

Setting to patch will override that behavior to use HTTP PATCH.

Choices:

  • "put" ← (default)

  • "patch"

avi_credentials

dictionary

Avi Credentials dictionary which can be used in lieu of enumerating Avi Controller login details.

api_version

string

Avi controller version

Default: "16.4.4"

controller

string

Avi controller IP or SQDN

csrftoken

string

Avi controller API csrftoken to reuse existing session with session id

Default: ""

password

string

Avi controller password

port

string

Avi controller port

session_id

string

Avi controller API session id to reuse existing session with csrftoken

Default: ""

tenant

string

Avi controller tenant

Default: "admin"

tenant_uuid

string

Avi controller tenant UUID

Default: ""

timeout

string

Avi controller request timeout

Default: 300

token

string

Avi controller API token

Default: ""

username

string

Avi controller username

avi_disable_session_cache_as_fact

boolean

It disables avi session information to be cached as a fact.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

cloud_ref

string

It is a reference to an object of type cloud.

configured_subnets

string

List of subnet.

controller

string

IP address or hostname of the controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_CONTROLLER.

dhcp_enabled

boolean

Select the ip address management scheme for this network.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as True.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

exclude_discovered_subnets

boolean

When selected, excludes all discovered subnets in this network from consideration for virtual service placement.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as False.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

ip6_autocfg_enabled

boolean

Enable ipv6 auto configuration.

Field introduced in 18.1.1.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as True.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

name

string / required

Name of the object.

password

string

Password of Avi user in Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_PASSWORD.

state

string

The state that should be applied on the entity.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

synced_from_se

boolean

Boolean flag to set synced_from_se.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as False.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

tenant

string

Name of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: "admin"

tenant_ref

string

It is a reference to an object of type tenant.

tenant_uuid

string

UUID of tenant used for all Avi API calls and context of object.

Default: ""

url

string

Avi controller URL of the object.

username

string

Username used for accessing Avi controller. The default value is the environment variable AVI_USERNAME.

uuid

string

Unique object identifier of the object.

vcenter_dvs

boolean

Boolean flag to set vcenter_dvs.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as True.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

vimgrnw_ref

string

It is a reference to an object of type vimgrnwruntime.

vrf_context_ref

string

It is a reference to an object of type vrfcontext.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Example to create Network object
  community.network.avi_network:
    controller: 10.10.25.42
    username: admin
    password: something
    state: present
    name: sample_network

Return Values

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

Key

Description

obj

dictionary

Network (api/network) object

Returned: success, changed

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Gaurav Rastogi (@grastogi23)