community.network.avi_cloud module – Module for setup of Cloud 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_cloud.

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_cloud

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"

apic_configuration

string

Apicconfiguration settings for cloud.

apic_mode

boolean

Boolean flag to set apic_mode.

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true

autoscale_polling_interval

string

Cloudconnector polling interval for external autoscale groups.

Field introduced in 18.2.2.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as 60.

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

aws_configuration

string

Awsconfiguration settings for cloud.

azure_configuration

string

Field introduced in 17.2.1.

cloudstack_configuration

string

Cloudstackconfiguration settings for cloud.

controller

string

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

custom_tags

string

Custom tags for all avi created resources in the cloud infrastructure.

Field introduced in 17.1.5.

dhcp_enabled

boolean

Select the ip address management scheme.

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true

dns_provider_ref

string

Dns profile for the cloud.

It is a reference to an object of type ipamdnsproviderprofile.

docker_configuration

string

Dockerconfiguration settings for cloud.

east_west_dns_provider_ref

string

Dns profile for east-west services.

It is a reference to an object of type ipamdnsproviderprofile.

east_west_ipam_provider_ref

string

Ipam profile for east-west services.

Warning - please use virtual subnets in this ipam profile that do not conflict with the underlay networks or any overlay networks in the cluster.

For example in aws and gcp, 169.254.0.0/16 is used for storing instance metadata.

Hence, it should not be used in this profile.

It is a reference to an object of type ipamdnsproviderprofile.

enable_vip_static_routes

boolean

Use static routes for vip side network resolution during virtualservice placement.

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true

gcp_configuration

string

Google cloud platform configuration.

Field introduced in 18.2.1.

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 False.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

ipam_provider_ref

string

Ipam profile for the cloud.

It is a reference to an object of type ipamdnsproviderprofile.

license_tier

string

Specifies the default license tier which would be used by new se groups.

This field by default inherits the value from system configuration.

Enum options - ENTERPRISE_16, ENTERPRISE_18.

Field introduced in 17.2.5.

license_type

string

If no license type is specified then default license enforcement for the cloud type is chosen.

The default mappings are container cloud is max ses, openstack and vmware is cores and linux it is sockets.

Enum options - LIC_BACKEND_SERVERS, LIC_SOCKETS, LIC_CORES, LIC_HOSTS, LIC_SE_BANDWIDTH, LIC_METERED_SE_BANDWIDTH.

linuxserver_configuration

string

Linuxserverconfiguration settings for cloud.

mesos_configuration

string

Field deprecated in 18.2.2.

mtu

string

Mtu setting for the cloud.

Default value when not specified in API or module is interpreted by Avi Controller as 1500.

name

string / required

Name of the object.

nsx_configuration

string

Configuration parameters for nsx manager.

Field introduced in 17.1.1.

obj_name_prefix

string

Default prefix for all automatically created objects in this cloud.

This prefix can be overridden by the se-group template.

openstack_configuration

string

Openstackconfiguration settings for cloud.

oshiftk8s_configuration

string

Oshiftk8sconfiguration settings for cloud.

password

string

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

prefer_static_routes

boolean

Prefer static routes over interface routes during virtualservice placement.

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true

proxy_configuration

string

Proxyconfiguration settings for cloud.

rancher_configuration

string

Rancherconfiguration settings for cloud.

state

string

The state that should be applied on the entity.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

state_based_dns_registration

boolean

Dns records for vips are added/deleted based on the operational state of the vips.

Field introduced in 17.1.12.

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

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.

vca_configuration

string

Vcloudairconfiguration settings for cloud.

vcenter_configuration

string

Vcenterconfiguration settings for cloud.

vtype

string / required

Cloud type.

Enum options - CLOUD_NONE, CLOUD_VCENTER, CLOUD_OPENSTACK, CLOUD_AWS, CLOUD_VCA, CLOUD_APIC, CLOUD_MESOS, CLOUD_LINUXSERVER, CLOUD_DOCKER_UCP,

CLOUD_RANCHER, CLOUD_OSHIFT_K8S, CLOUD_AZURE, CLOUD_GCP.

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

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Create a VMware cloud with write access mode
  community.network.avi_cloud:
    username: '{{ username }}'
    controller: '{{ controller }}'
    password: '{{ password }}'
    apic_mode: false
    dhcp_enabled: true
    enable_vip_static_routes: false
    license_type: LIC_CORES
    mtu: 1500
    name: vCenter Cloud
    prefer_static_routes: false
    tenant_ref: admin
    vcenter_configuration:
      datacenter_ref: /api/vimgrdcruntime/datacenter-2-10.10.20.100
      management_network: /api/vimgrnwruntime/dvportgroup-103-10.10.20.100
      password: password
      privilege: WRITE_ACCESS
      username: user
      vcenter_url: 10.10.20.100
    vtype: CLOUD_VCENTER

Return Values

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

Key

Description

obj

dictionary

Cloud (api/cloud) 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)