ansible.builtin.ec2_eip (v2.9.17) — 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 community

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.17

Description

This module can allocate or release an EIP.

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


Requirements

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 }}"
  loop: "{{ 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 }}"
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate eip - reuse unallocated ips (if found) with FREE tag
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: FREE
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate eip - reuse unallocted ips if tag reserved is nope
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: reserved
    tag_value: nope
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate new eip - from servers given ipv4 pool
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    public_ipv4_pool: ipv4pool-ec2-0588c9b75a25d1a02
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate eip - from a given pool (if no free addresses where dev-servers tag is dynamic)
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: dev-servers
    public_ipv4_pool: ipv4pool-ec2-0588c9b75a25d1a02
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: allocate eip from pool - check if tag reserved_for exists and value is our hostname
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: reserved_for
    tag_value: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    public_ipv4_pool: ipv4pool-ec2-0588c9b75a25d1a02

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.
    type: bool
    version_added: '1.4'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

region:
    aliases:
    - aws_region
    - ec2_region
    description:
    - The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
      environment variable, if any, is used. See U(http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region)
    type: str

ec2_url:
    aliases:
    - aws_endpoint_url
    - endpoint_url
    description:
    - URL to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will
      use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified
      for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL
      environment variable, if any, is used.
    type: str

profile:
    aliases:
    - aws_profile
    description:
    - Using I(profile) will override I(aws_access_key), I(aws_secret_key) and I(security_token)
      and support for passing them at the same time as I(profile) has been deprecated.
    - I(aws_access_key), I(aws_secret_key) and I(security_token) will be made mutually
      exclusive with I(profile) after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

tag_name:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - When reuse_existing_ip_allowed is true, supplement with this option to only reuse
      an Elastic IP if it is tagged with tag_name.
    version_added: '2.9'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

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.

tag_value:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Supplements tag_name but also checks that the value of the tag provided in tag_name
      matches tag_value. matches the tag_value
    version_added: '2.9'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

aws_config:
    description:
    - A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.
    - Parameters can be found at U(https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config).
    - Only the 'user_agent' key is used for boto modules. See U(http://boto.cloudhackers.com/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html#boto)
      for more boto configuration.
    type: dict

aws_ca_bundle:
    description:
    - The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.
    - Not used by boto 2 based modules.
    - 'Note: The CA Bundle is read ''module'' side and may need to be explicitly copied
      from the controller if not run locally.'
    type: path

aws_access_key:
    aliases:
    - ec2_access_key
    - access_key
    description:
    - C(AWS access key). If not set then the value of the C(AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID), C(AWS_ACCESS_KEY)
      or C(EC2_ACCESS_KEY) environment variable is used.
    - If I(profile) is set this parameter is ignored.
    - Passing the I(aws_access_key) and I(profile) options at the same time has been deprecated
      and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

aws_secret_key:
    aliases:
    - ec2_secret_key
    - secret_key
    description:
    - C(AWS secret key). If not set then the value of the C(AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY), C(AWS_SECRET_KEY),
      or C(EC2_SECRET_KEY) environment variable is used.
    - If I(profile) is set this parameter is ignored.
    - Passing the I(aws_secret_key) and I(profile) options at the same time has been deprecated
      and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

security_token:
    aliases:
    - aws_security_token
    - access_token
    description:
    - C(AWS STS security token). If not set then the value of the C(AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN)
      or C(EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN) environment variable is used.
    - If I(profile) is set this parameter is ignored.
    - Passing the I(security_token) and I(profile) options at the same time has been deprecated
      and the options will be made mutually exclusive after 2022-06-01.
    type: str

validate_certs:
    default: true
    description:
    - When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with
      the AWS APIs.
    type: bool

public_ipv4_pool:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Allocates the new Elastic IP from the provided public IPv4 pool (BYOIP) only applies
      to newly allocated Elastic IPs, isn't validated when reuse_existing_ip_allowed is
      true.
    version_added: '2.9'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

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.
    type: bool
    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
    type: bool
    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.
    type: bool
    version_added: '1.6'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action"
      API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the
      task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made
      during a playbook. The 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: str
public_ip:
  description: an elastic ip address
  returned: on success
  sample: 52.88.159.209
  type: str