ansible.builtin.route53 (v2.9.17) — module

add or delete entries in Amazons Route53 DNS service

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

Authors: Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker), Mike Buzzetti (@jimbydamonk)

stableinterface | supported by community

Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.17

Description

Creates and deletes DNS records in Amazons Route53 service


Requirements

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

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: 'no'
    description:
    - Wait until the changes have been replicated to all Amazon Route 53 DNS servers.
    type: bool
    version_added: '2.1'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

zone:
    description:
    - The DNS zone to modify
    - This is a required parameter, if parameter C(hosted_zone_id) is not supplied.

alias:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - Indicates if this is an alias record.
    type: bool
    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:
    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.

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

region:
    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
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

vpc_id:
    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.
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

weight:
    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.
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

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

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

overwrite:
    description:
    - Whether an existing record should be overwritten on create if values do not match
    type: bool

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

identifier:
    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.
    version_added: '2.0'
    version_added_collection: ansible.builtin

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

private_zone:
    default: 'no'
    description:
    - If set to C(yes), 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.
    type: bool
    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.
    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.
    - 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

hosted_zone_id:
    description:
    - The Hosted Zone ID of the DNS zone to modify
    - This is a required parameter, if parameter C(zone) is not supplied.
    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.

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

alias_hosted_zone_id:
    description:
    - The hosted zone identifier.
    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.
    type: bool
    version_added: '2.1'
    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

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: str
    region:
      description: ''
      returned: always
      sample: null
      type: null
    ttl:
      description: resource record cache TTL
      returned: always
      sample: '3600'
      type: str
    type:
      description: record set type
      returned: always
      sample: A
      type: str
    value:
      description: value
      returned: always
      sample: 52.43.18.27
      type: str
    values:
      description: values
      returned: always
      sample:
      - 52.43.18.27
      type: list
    weight:
      description: weight of the record
      returned: always
      sample: '3'
      type: str
    zone:
      description: zone this record set belongs to
      returned: always
      sample: foo.bar.com.
      type: str
  description: info specific to the resource record
  returned: when state is 'get'
  type: complex