community.network.ce_vrf_interface module – Manages interface specific VPN configuration on HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

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.

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

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

  • Manages interface specific VPN configuration of HUAWEI CloudEngine switches.

Aliases: network.cloudengine.ce_vrf_interface

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

state

string

Manage the state of the resource.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

vpn_interface

string / required

An interface that can binding VPN instance, i.e. 40GE1/0/22, Vlanif10. Must be fully qualified interface name. Interface types, such as 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, LoopBack, MEth, Tunnel, Vlanif….

vrf

string / required

VPN instance, the length of vrf name is 1 ~ 31, i.e. “test”, but can not be _public_.

Notes

Note

  • Ensure that a VPN instance has been created and the IPv4 address family has been enabled for the VPN instance.

  • This module requires the netconf system service be enabled on the remote device being managed.

  • Recommended connection is netconf.

  • This module also works with local connections for legacy playbooks.

Examples

- name: VRF interface test
  hosts: cloudengine
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

  - name: "Configure a VPN instance for the interface"
    community.network.ce_vrf_interface:
      vpn_interface: 40GE1/0/2
      vrf: test
      state: present

  - name: "Disable the association between a VPN instance and an interface"
    community.network.ce_vrf_interface:
      vpn_interface: 40GE1/0/2
      vrf: test
      state: absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

changed

boolean

check to see if a change was made on the device

Returned: always

Sample: true

end_state

dictionary

k/v pairs of end attributes on the interface

Returned: verbose mode

Sample: {"vpn_interface": "40GE2/0/17", "vrf": "jss"}

existing

dictionary

k/v pairs of existing attributes on the interface

Returned: verbose mode

Sample: {"vpn_interface": "40GE2/0/17", "vrf": null}

proposed

dictionary

k/v pairs of parameters passed into module

Returned: verbose mode

Sample: {"state": "present", "vpn_interface": "40GE2/0/17", "vrf": "jss"}

updates

list / elements=string

command list sent to the device

Returned: always

Sample: ["ip binding vpn-instance jss"]

Status

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

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Zhijin Zhou (@QijunPan)