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cs_portforward - Manages port forwarding rules on Apache CloudStack based clouds.

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

  • Create, update and remove port forwarding rules.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
account
 no
Account the vm is related to.
api_http_method
 no get
  • get
  • post
HTTP method used.
api_key
 no
API key of the CloudStack API.
api_region
 no cloudstack
Name of the ini section in the cloustack.ini file.
api_secret
 no
Secret key of the CloudStack API.
api_timeout
 no 10
HTTP timeout.
api_url
 no
URL of the CloudStack API e.g. https://cloud.example.com/client/api.
domain
 no
Domain the vm is related to.
ip_address
 yes
Public IP address the rule is assigned to.
network
(added in 2.3)
 no
Name of the network.
open_firewall
 no
Whether the firewall rule for public port should be created, while creating the new rule.
Use cs_firewall for managing firewall rules.
poll_async
 no True
Poll async jobs until job has finished.
private_end_port
 no
End private port for this rule.
If not specified equal private_port.
private_port
 yes
Start private port for this rule.
project
 no
Name of the project the vm is located in.
protocol
 no tcp
  • tcp
  • udp
Protocol of the port forwarding rule.
public_end_port
 no
End public port for this rule.
If not specified equal public_port.
public_port
 yes
Start public port for this rule.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
State of the port forwarding rule.
tags
(added in 2.4)
 no
List of tags. Tags are a list of dictionaries having keys key and value.
To delete all tags, set a empty list e.g. tags: [].

aliases: tag
vm
 no
Name of virtual machine which we make the port forwarding rule for.
Required if state=present.
vm_guest_ip
 no
VM guest NIC secondary IP address for the port forwarding rule.
vpc
(added in 2.3)
 no
Name of the VPC.
zone
 no
Name of the zone in which the virtual machine is in.
If not set, default zone is used.

Examples

# 1.2.3.4:80 -> web01:8080
- local_action:
    module: cs_portforward
    ip_address: 1.2.3.4
    vm: web01
    public_port: 80
    private_port: 8080

# forward SSH and open firewall
- local_action:
    module: cs_portforward
    ip_address: '{{ public_ip }}'
    vm: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    public_port: '{{ ansible_ssh_port }}'
    private_port: 22
    open_firewall: true

# forward DNS traffic, but do not open firewall
- local_action:
    module: cs_portforward
    ip_address: 1.2.3.4
    vm: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
    public_port: 53
    private_port: 53
    protocol: udp

# remove ssh port forwarding
- local_action:
    module: cs_portforward
    ip_address: 1.2.3.4
    public_port: 22
    private_port: 22
    state: absent

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
id
UUID of the public IP address.
 success string a6f7a5fc-43f8-11e5-a151-feff819cdc9f
ip_address
Public IP address.
 success string 1.2.3.4
network
Name of the network.
 success string dmz
private_end_port
End port on the virtual machine's IP address.
 success int
private_port
Start port on the virtual machine's IP address.
 success int 80
protocol
Protocol.
 success string tcp
public_end_port
End port on the public IP address.
 success int 80
public_port
Start port on the public IP address.
 success int 80
tags
Tags related to the port forwarding.
 success list []
vm_display_name
Display name of the virtual machine.
 success string web-01
vm_guest_ip
IP of the virtual machine.
 success string 10.101.65.152
vm_name
Name of the virtual machine.
 success string web-01
vpc
Name of the VPC.
 success string my_vpc


Notes

Note

  • Ansible uses the cs library’s configuration method if credentials are not provided by the arguments api_url, api_key, api_secret. Configuration is read from several locations, in the following order. - The CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT, CLOUDSTACK_KEY, CLOUDSTACK_SECRET and CLOUDSTACK_METHOD. CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT environment variables. - A CLOUDSTACK_CONFIG environment variable pointing to an .ini file, - A cloudstack.ini file in the current working directory. - A .cloudstack.ini file in the users home directory. Optionally multiple credentials and endpoints can be specified using ini sections in cloudstack.ini. Use the argument api_region to select the section name, default section is cloudstack. See https://github.com/exoscale/cs for more information.
  • A detailed guide about cloudstack modules can be found on http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/guide_cloudstack.html
  • This module supports check mode.

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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