ansible.builtin.route53 (v2.5.10) — module

add or delete entries in Amazons Route53 DNS service

| "added in version" 1.3 of ansible.builtin"

Authors: Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker), Mike Buzzetti <mike.buzzetti@gmail.com>

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Install with pip install ansible==2.5.10

Description

Creates and deletes DNS records in Amazons Route53 service

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add new.foo.com as an A record with 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      record: new.foo.com
      type: A
      ttl: 7200
      value: 1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2,3.3.3.3
      wait: yes
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Update new.foo.com as an A record with a list of 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      record: new.foo.com
      type: A
      ttl: 7200
      value:
        - 1.1.1.1
        - 2.2.2.2
        - 3.3.3.3
      wait: yes
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Retrieve the details for new.foo.com
- route53:
      state: get
      zone: foo.com
      record: new.foo.com
      type: A
  register: rec
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Delete new.foo.com A record using the results from the get command
- route53:
      state: absent
      zone: foo.com
      record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
      ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
      type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
      value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add an AAAA record.  Note that because there are colons in the value
# that the IPv6 address must be quoted. Also shows using the old form command=create.
- route53:
      command: create
      zone: foo.com
      record: localhost.foo.com
      type: AAAA
      ttl: 7200
      value: "::1"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add a SRV record with multiple fields for a service on port 22222
# For more information on SRV records see:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      record: "_example-service._tcp.foo.com"
      type: SRV
      value: "0 0 22222 host1.foo.com,0 0 22222 host2.foo.com"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add a TXT record. Note that TXT and SPF records must be surrounded
# by quotes when sent to Route 53:
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      record: localhost.foo.com
      type: TXT
      ttl: 7200
      value: '"bar"'
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB:
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      record: elb.foo.com
      type: A
      value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
      alias: True
      alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Retrieve the details for elb.foo.com
- route53:
      state: get
      zone: foo.com
      record: elb.foo.com
      type: A
  register: rec
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Delete an alias record using the results from the get command
- route53:
      state: absent
      zone: foo.com
      record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
      ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
      type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
      value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
      alias: True
      alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ rec.set.alias_hosted_zone_id }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB and evaluates it health:
- route53:
    state: present
    zone: foo.com
    record: elb.foo.com
    type: A
    value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
    alias: True
    alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
    alias_evaluate_target_health: True
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add an AAAA record with Hosted Zone ID.
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      hosted_zone_id: Z2AABBCCDDEEFF
      record: localhost.foo.com
      type: AAAA
      ttl: 7200
      value: "::1"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Use a routing policy to distribute traffic:
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: foo.com
      record: www.foo.com
      type: CNAME
      value: host1.foo.com
      ttl: 30
      # Routing policy
      identifier: "host1@www"
      weight: 100
      health_check: "d994b780-3150-49fd-9205-356abdd42e75"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Add a CAA record (RFC 6844):
- route53:
      state: present
      zone: example.com
      record: example.com
      type: CAA
      value:
        - 0 issue "ca.example.net"
        - 0 issuewild ";"
        - 0 iodef "mailto:security@example.com"

Inputs

    
ttl:
    default: 3600 (one hour)
    description:
    - The TTL to give the new record
    required: false

type:
    choices:
    - A
    - CNAME
    - MX
    - AAAA
    - TXT
    - PTR
    - SRV
    - SPF
    - CAA
    - NS
    - SOA
    description:
    - The type of DNS record to create
    required: true

wait:
    default: false
    description:
    - Wait until the changes have been replicated to all Amazon Route 53 DNS servers.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.1'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

zone:
    description:
    - The DNS zone to modify
    required: true

alias:
    choices:
    - 'True'
    - 'False'
    default: false
    description:
    - Indicates if this is an alias record.
    required: false
    version_added: '1.9'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

state:
    aliases:
    - command
    choices:
    - present
    - absent
    - get
    - create
    - delete
    description:
    - Specifies the state of the resource record. As of Ansible 2.4, the I(command) option
      has been changed to I(state) as default and the choices 'present' and 'absent' have
      been added, but I(command) still works as well.
    required: true

value:
    default: null
    description:
    - The new value when creating a DNS record.  YAML lists or multiple comma-spaced values
      are allowed for non-alias records.
    - When deleting a record all values for the record must be specified or Route53 will
      not delete it.
    required: false

record:
    description:
    - The full DNS record to create or delete
    required: true

region:
    default: null
    description:
    - Latency-based resource record sets only Among resource record sets that have the
      same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines which region this
      should be associated with for the latency-based routing
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

vpc_id:
    default: null
    description:
    - 'When used in conjunction with private_zone: true, this will only modify records
      in the private hosted zone attached to this VPC.'
    - This allows you to have multiple private hosted zones, all with the same name, attached
      to different VPCs.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

weight:
    default: null
    description:
    - Weighted resource record sets only. Among resource record sets that have the same
      combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines what portion of traffic
      for the current resource record set is routed to the associated location.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

profile:
    aliases:
    - aws_profile
    description:
    - A named AWS profile to use for authentication.
    - See the AWS documentation for more information about named profiles U(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html).
    - The C(AWS_PROFILE) environment variable may also be used.
    - The I(profile) option is mutually exclusive with the I(aws_access_key), I(aws_secret_key)
      and I(security_token) options.
    type: str

failover:
    default: null
    description:
    - Failover resource record sets only. Whether this is the primary or secondary resource
      record set. Allowed values are PRIMARY and SECONDARY
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

overwrite:
    default: null
    description:
    - Whether an existing record should be overwritten on create if values do not match
    required: false

access_key:
    aliases:
    - aws_access_key_id
    - aws_access_key
    - ec2_access_key
    description:
    - AWS access key ID.
    - See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens U(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys).
    - The C(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID), C(AWS_ACCESS_KEY) or C(EC2_ACCESS_KEY) environment variables
      may also be used in decreasing order of preference.
    - The I(aws_access_key) and I(profile) options are mutually exclusive.
    - The I(aws_access_key_id) alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the
      AWS botocore SDK.
    - The I(ec2_access_key) alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release
      after 2024-12-01.
    - Support for the C(EC2_ACCESS_KEY) environment variable has been deprecated and will
      be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.
    type: str

aws_config:
    description:
    - A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.
    - Parameters can be found in the AWS documentation U(https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config).
    type: dict

identifier:
    default: null
    description:
    - Have to be specified for Weighted, latency-based and failover resource record sets
      only. An identifier that differentiates among multiple resource record sets that
      have the same combination of DNS name and type.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

secret_key:
    aliases:
    - aws_secret_access_key
    - aws_secret_key
    - ec2_secret_key
    description:
    - AWS secret access key.
    - See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens U(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys).
    - The C(AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY), C(AWS_SECRET_KEY), or C(EC2_SECRET_KEY) environment
      variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.
    - The I(secret_key) and I(profile) options are mutually exclusive.
    - The I(aws_secret_access_key) alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with
      the AWS botocore SDK.
    - The I(ec2_secret_key) alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release
      after 2024-12-01.
    - Support for the C(EC2_SECRET_KEY) environment variable has been deprecated and will
      be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.
    type: str

endpoint_url:
    aliases:
    - ec2_url
    - aws_endpoint_url
    - s3_url
    description:
    - URL to connect to instead of the default AWS endpoints.  While this can be used
      to connection to other AWS-compatible services the amazon.aws and community.aws
      collections are only tested against AWS.
    - The  C(AWS_URL) or C(EC2_URL) environment variables may also be used, in decreasing
      order of preference.
    - The I(ec2_url) and I(s3_url) aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in
      a release after 2024-12-01.
    - Support for the C(EC2_URL) environment variable has been deprecated and will be
      removed in a release after 2024-12-01.
    type: str

health_check:
    default: null
    description:
    - Health check to associate with this record
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

private_zone:
    default: false
    description:
    - If set to true, the private zone matching the requested name within the domain will
      be used if there are both public and private zones. The default is to use the public
      zone.
    required: false
    version_added: '1.9'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

wait_timeout:
    default: 300
    description:
    - How long to wait for the changes to be replicated, in seconds.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.1'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

aws_ca_bundle:
    description:
    - The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.
    - The C(AWS_CA_BUNDLE) environment variable may also be used.
    type: path

session_token:
    aliases:
    - aws_session_token
    - security_token
    - aws_security_token
    - access_token
    description:
    - AWS STS session token for use with temporary credentials.
    - See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens U(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys).
    - The C(AWS_SESSION_TOKEN), C(AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN) or C(EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN) environment
      variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.
    - The I(security_token) and I(profile) options are mutually exclusive.
    - Aliases I(aws_session_token) and I(session_token) were added in release 3.2.0, with
      the parameter being renamed from I(security_token) to I(session_token) in release
      6.0.0.
    - The I(security_token), I(aws_security_token), and I(access_token) aliases have been
      deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.
    - Support for the C(EC2_SECRET_KEY) and C(AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN) environment variables
      has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.
    type: str

hosted_zone_id:
    default: null
    description:
    - The Hosted Zone ID of the DNS zone to modify
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

retry_interval:
    default: 500
    description:
    - In the case that route53 is still servicing a prior request, this module will wait
      and try again after this many seconds. If you have many domain names, the default
      of 500 seconds may be too long.
    required: false

validate_certs:
    default: true
    description:
    - When set to C(false), SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with
      the AWS APIs.
    - Setting I(validate_certs=false) is strongly discouraged, as an alternative, consider
      setting I(aws_ca_bundle) instead.
    type: bool

alias_hosted_zone_id:
    default: null
    description:
    - The hosted zone identifier.
    required: false
    version_added: '1.9'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

alias_evaluate_target_health:
    default: false
    description:
    - Whether or not to evaluate an alias target health. Useful for aliases to Elastic
      Load Balancers.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.1'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs:
    default: false
    description:
    - Use a C(botocore.endpoint) logger to parse the unique (rather than total) C("resource:action")
      API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the
      task results. Use the C(aws_resource_action) callback to output to total list made
      during a playbook.
    - The C(ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS) environment variable may also be used.
    type: bool

Outputs

nameservers:
  description: nameservers associated with the zone
  returned: when state is 'get'
  sample:
  - ns-1036.awsdns-00.org.
  - ns-516.awsdns-00.net.
  - ns-1504.awsdns-00.co.uk.
  - ns-1.awsdns-00.com.
  type: list
set:
  contains:
    alias:
      description: whether this is an alias
      returned: always
      sample: false
      type: bool
    failover:
      description: ''
      returned: always
      sample: null
      type: NoneType
    health_check:
      description: health_check associated with this record
      returned: always
      sample: null
      type: NoneType
    identifier:
      description: ''
      returned: always
      sample: null
      type: NoneType
    record:
      description: domain name for the record set
      returned: always
      sample: new.foo.com.
      type: string
    region:
      description: ''
      returned: always
      sample: null
      type: null
    ttl:
      description: resource record cache TTL
      returned: always
      sample: '3600'
      type: string
    type:
      description: record set type
      returned: always
      sample: A
      type: string
    value:
      description: value
      returned: always
      sample: 52.43.18.27
      type: string
    values:
      description: values
      returned: always
      sample:
      - 52.43.18.27
      type: list
    weight:
      description: weight of the record
      returned: always
      sample: '3'
      type: string
    zone:
      description: zone this record set belongs to
      returned: always
      sample: foo.bar.com.
      type: string
  description: info specific to the resource record
  returned: when state is 'get'
  type: complex