ansible.builtin.ec2_eip (v2.6.10) — module

manages EC2 elastic IP (EIP) addresses.

| "added in version" 1.4 of ansible.builtin"

Authors: Rick Mendes (@rickmendes) <rmendes@illumina.com>

stableinterface | supported by certified

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.6.10

Description

This module can allocate or release an EIP.

This module can associate/disassociate an EIP with instances or network interfaces.

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

- name: associate an elastic IP with an instance
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: i-1212f003
    ip: 93.184.216.119
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: associate an elastic IP with a device
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: eni-c8ad70f3
    ip: 93.184.216.119
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: associate an elastic IP with a device and allow reassociation
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: eni-c8ad70f3
    public_ip: 93.184.216.119
    allow_reassociation: yes
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: disassociate an elastic IP from an instance
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: i-1212f003
    ip: 93.184.216.119
    state: absent
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: disassociate an elastic IP with a device
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: eni-c8ad70f3
    ip: 93.184.216.119
    state: absent
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate a new elastic IP and associate it with an instance
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: i-1212f003
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate a new elastic IP without associating it to anything
  ec2_eip:
    state: present
  register: eip
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: output the IP
  debug:
    msg: "Allocated IP is {{ eip.public_ip }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: provision new instances with ec2
  ec2:
    keypair: mykey
    instance_type: c1.medium
    image: ami-40603AD1
    wait: yes
    group: webserver
    count: 3
  register: ec2
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: associate new elastic IPs with each of the instances
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: "{{ item }}"
  with_items: "{{ ec2.instance_ids }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate a new elastic IP inside a VPC in us-west-2
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-west-2
    in_vpc: yes
  register: eip
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: output the IP
  debug:
    msg: "Allocated IP inside a VPC is {{ eip.public_ip }}"

Inputs

    
state:
    choices:
    - present
    - absent
    default: present
    description:
    - If present, allocate an EIP or associate an existing EIP with a device.
    - If absent, disassociate the EIP from the device and optionally release it.

in_vpc:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Allocate an EIP inside a VPC or not. Required if specifying an ENI.
    version_added: '1.4'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

region:
    aliases:
    - aws_region
    - ec2_region
    description:
    - The AWS region to use.
    - For global services such as IAM, Route53 and CloudFront, I(region) is ignored.
    - The C(AWS_REGION) or C(EC2_REGION) environment variables may also be used.
    - See the Amazon AWS documentation for more information U(http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region).
    - The C(ec2_region) alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after
      2024-12-01
    - Support for the C(EC2_REGION) environment variable has been deprecated and will
      be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.
    type: str

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.  Prior to release 6.0.0
      the C(AWS_PROFILE) environment variable will be ignored if any of I(access_key),
      I(secret_key), or I(session_token) are passed.  After release 6.0.0 I(profile) will
      always fall back to the C(AWS_PROFILE) environment variable if set.
    - The I(profile) option is mutually exclusive with the I(aws_access_key), I(aws_secret_key)
      and I(security_token) options.
    type: str

device_id:
    aliases:
    - instance_id
    description:
    - The id of the device for the EIP. Can be an EC2 Instance id or Elastic Network Interface
      (ENI) id.
    required: false
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

public_ip:
    aliases:
    - ip
    description:
    - The IP address of a previously allocated EIP.
    - If present and device is specified, the EIP is associated with the device.
    - If absent and device is specified, the EIP is disassociated from the device.

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.  Prior to release 6.0.0 these
      environment variables will be ignored if the I(profile) parameter is passed.  After
      release 6.0.0 I(access_key) will always fall back to the environment variables if
      set.
    - 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

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.  Prior to release
      6.0.0 these environment variables will be ignored if the I(profile) parameter is
      passed.  After release 6.0.0 I(secret_key) will always fall back to the environment
      variables if set.
    - 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

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. Prior to release 6.0.0
      these environment variables will be ignored if the I(profile) parameter is passed.  After
      release 6.0.0 I(session_token) will always fall back to the environment variables
      if set.
    - 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

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

private_ip_address:
    description:
    - The primary or secondary private IP address to associate with the Elastic IP address.
    version_added: '2.3'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

allow_reassociation:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Specify this option to allow an Elastic IP address that is already associated with
      another network interface or instance to be re-associated with the specified instance
      or interface.
    version_added: '2.5'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

release_on_disassociation:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - whether or not to automatically release the EIP when it is disassociated
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

reuse_existing_ip_allowed:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Reuse an EIP that is not associated to a device (when available), instead of allocating
      a new one.
    version_added: '1.6'
    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

allocation_id:
  description: allocation_id of the elastic ip
  returned: on success
  sample: eipalloc-51aa3a6c
  type: string
public_ip:
  description: an elastic ip address
  returned: on success
  sample: 52.88.159.209
  type: string