community.general.nios_next_network (3.8.10) — lookup

Install collection

Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.general:==3.8.10

Add to requirements.yml

  collections:
    - name: community.general
      version: 3.8.10

Description

Uses the Infoblox WAPI API to return the next available network addresses for a given network CIDR

Requirements

• infoblox_client

Usage examples

Scanned by Steampunk Spotter

• Success
  Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.

- name: return next available network for network-container 192.168.10.0/24
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    networkaddr: "{{ lookup('community.general.nios_next_network', '192.168.10.0/24', cidr=25,
                        provider={'host': 'nios01', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'password'}) }}"

Scanned by Steampunk Spotter

• Success
  Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.

- name: return the next 2 available network addresses for network-container 192.168.10.0/24
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    networkaddr: "{{ lookup('community.general.nios_next_network', '192.168.10.0/24', cidr=25, num=2,
                        provider={'host': 'nios01', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'password'}) }}"

Scanned by Steampunk Spotter

• Success
  Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.

- name: return the available network addresses for network-container 192.168.10.0/24 excluding network range '192.168.10.0/25'
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    networkaddr: "{{ lookup('community.general.nios_next_network', '192.168.10.0/24', cidr=25, exclude=['192.168.10.0/25'],
                        provider={'host': 'nios01', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'password'}) }}"

Inputs

    
num:
    default: 1
    description: The number of network addresses to return from network-container
    required: false

cidr:
    description:
    - The CIDR of the network to retrieve the next network from next available network
      within the specified container. Also, Requested CIDR must be specified and greater
      than the parent CIDR.
    required: true

_terms:
    description: The CIDR network to retrieve the next network from next available network
      within the specified container.
    required: true

exclude:
    default: ''
    description: Network addresses returned from network-container excluding list of user's
      input network range
    required: false

provider:
    description:
    - A dict object containing connection details.
    suboptions:
      host:
        description:
        - Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote instance
          of NIOS WAPI over REST
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_HOST) environment variable.
        type: str
      http_pool_connections:
        default: 10
        description:
        - Number of pools to be used by the C(infoblox_client.Connector) object.
        - This is passed as-is to the underlying C(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter) class.
        type: int
      http_pool_maxsize:
        default: 10
        description:
        - Maximum number of connections per pool to be used by the C(infoblox_client.Connector)
          object.
        - This is passed as-is to the underlying C(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter) class.
        type: int
      http_request_timeout:
        default: 10
        description:
        - The amount of time before to wait before receiving a response
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT) environment
          variable.
        type: int
      max_results:
        default: 1000
        description:
        - Specifies the maximum number of objects to be returned, if set to a negative
          number the appliance will return an error when the number of returned objects
          would exceed the setting.
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_MAX_RESULTS) environment variable.
        type: int
      max_retries:
        default: 3
        description:
        - Configures the number of attempted retries before the connection is declared
          usable
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_MAX_RETRIES) environment variable.
        type: int
      password:
        description:
        - Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote instance
          of NIOS.
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_PASSWORD) environment variable.
        type: str
      silent_ssl_warnings:
        default: true
        description:
        - Disable C(urllib3) SSL warnings in the C(infoblox_client.Connector) object.
        - This is passed as-is to the underlying C(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter) class.
        type: bool
      username:
        description:
        - Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote
          instance of NIOS.
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_USERNAME) environment variable.
        type: str
      validate_certs:
        aliases:
        - ssl_verify
        default: false
        description:
        - Boolean value to enable or disable verifying SSL certificates
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_SSL_VERIFY) environment variable.
        type: bool
      wapi_version:
        default: '2.1'
        description:
        - Specifies the version of WAPI to use
        - Value can also be specified using C(INFOBLOX_WAP_VERSION) environment variable.
        - Until ansible 2.8 the default WAPI was 1.4
        type: str
    type: dict

Outputs

_list:
  description:
  - The list of next network addresses available
  type: list