gcdns_record - Creates or removes resource records in Google Cloud DNS¶

Synopsis¶

• Creates or removes resource records in Google Cloud DNS.

Requirements (on host that executes module)¶

• python >= 2.6
• apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Options¶

Examples¶

# Create an A record.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'www1.example.com'
    zone: 'example.com'
    type: A
    value: '1.2.3.4'

# Update an existing record.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'www1.example.com'
    zone: 'example.com'
    type: A
    overwrite: true
    value: '5.6.7.8'

# Remove an A record.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'www1.example.com'
    zone_id: 'example-com'
    state: absent
    type: A
    value: '5.6.7.8'

# Create a CNAME record.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'www.example.com'
    zone_id: 'example-com'
    type: CNAME
    value: 'www.example.com.'    # Note the trailing dot

# Create an MX record with a custom TTL.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'example.com'
    zone: 'example.com'
    type: MX
    ttl: 3600
    value: '10 mail.example.com.'    # Note the trailing dot

# Create multiple A records with the same name.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'api.example.com'
    zone_id: 'example-com'
    type: A
    record_data:
      - '192.0.2.23'
      - '10.4.5.6'
      - '198.51.100.5'
      - '203.0.113.10'

# Change the value of an existing record with multiple record_data.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'api.example.com'
    zone: 'example.com'
    type: A
    overwrite: true
    record_data:           # WARNING: All values in a record will be replaced
      - '192.0.2.23'
      - '192.0.2.42'    # The changed record
      - '198.51.100.5'
      - '203.0.113.10'

# Safely remove a multi-line record.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'api.example.com'
    zone_id: 'example-com'
    state: absent
    type: A
    record_data:           # NOTE: All of the values must match exactly
      - '192.0.2.23'
      - '192.0.2.42'
      - '198.51.100.5'
      - '203.0.113.10'

# Unconditionally remove a record.
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'api.example.com'
    zone_id: 'example-com'
    state: absent
    overwrite: true   # overwrite is true, so no values are needed
    type: A

# Create an AAAA record
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'www1.example.com'
    zone: 'example.com'
    type: AAAA
    value: 'fd00:db8::1'

# Create a PTR record
- gcdns_record:
    record: '10.5.168.192.in-addr.arpa'
    zone: '5.168.192.in-addr.arpa'
    type: PTR
    value: 'api.example.com.'    # Note the trailing dot.

# Create an NS record
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'subdomain.example.com'
    zone: 'example.com'
    type: NS
    ttl: 21600
    record_data:
      - 'ns-cloud-d1.googledomains.com.'    # Note the trailing dots on values
      - 'ns-cloud-d2.googledomains.com.'
      - 'ns-cloud-d3.googledomains.com.'
      - 'ns-cloud-d4.googledomains.com.'

# Create a TXT record
- gcdns_record:
    record: 'example.com'
    zone_id: 'example-com'
    type: TXT
    record_data:
      - '"v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com -all"'   # A single-string TXT value
      - '"hello " "world"'    # A multi-string TXT value

Return Values¶

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

Notes¶