bigip_pool_member – Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM pool members
bigip_pool_member – Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM pool members
New in version 1.4.
Synopsis
- Manages F5 BIG-IP LTM pool members via iControl SOAP API.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- f5-sdk >= 3.0.16
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
---|---|---|---|
address - added in 2.2 |
IP address of the pool member. This can be either IPv4 or IPv6. When creating a new pool member, one of either
| ||
connection_limit - |
Pool member connection limit. Setting this to 0 disables the limit. | ||
description - |
Pool member description. | ||
fqdn - added in 2.6 |
FQDN name of the pool member. This can be any name that is a valid RFC 1123 DNS name. Therefore, the only characters that can be used are "A" to "Z", "a" to "z", "0" to "9", the hyphen ("-") and the period ("."). FQDN names must include at lease one period; delineating the host from the domain. ex. FQDN names must end with a letter or a number. When creating a new pool member, one of either
| ||
fqdn_auto_populate boolean added in 2.6 |
|
Specifies whether the system automatically creates ephemeral nodes using the IP addresses returned by the resolution of a DNS query for a node defined by an FQDN. When When When creating a new pool member, the default for this parameter is This parameter is ignored when | |
name - added in 2.6 |
Name of the node to create, or re-use, when creating a new pool member. This parameter is optional and, if not specified, a node name will be created automatically from either the specified The | ||
partition - |
Default: "Common" |
Partition | |
password - / required |
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable
| ||
pool - / required |
Pool name. This pool must exist. | ||
port - / required |
Pool member port. This value cannot be changed after it has been set. | ||
preserve_node boolean added in 2.1 |
|
When state is The node will not be removed if it is still referenced by other pool members. If this happens, the module will not raise an error. Setting this to | |
priority_group - added in 2.5 |
Specifies a number representing the priority group for the pool member. When adding a new member, the default is 0, meaning that the member has no priority. To specify a priority, you must activate priority group usage when you create a new pool or when adding or removing pool members. When activated, the system load balances traffic according to the priority group number assigned to the pool member. The higher the number, the higher the priority, so a member with a priority of 3 has higher priority than a member with a priority of 1. | ||
provider - added in 2.5 |
Default: null |
A dict object containing connection details. | |
password - / required |
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable
| ||
server - / required |
The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
server_port - |
Default: 443 |
The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | |
ssh_keyfile - |
Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
timeout - |
Default: 10 |
Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error. | |
transport - / required |
|
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device. | |
user - / required |
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
validate_certs boolean |
|
If You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | |
rate_limit - |
Pool member rate limit (connections-per-second). Setting this to 0 disables the limit. | ||
ratio - |
Pool member ratio weight. Valid values range from 1 through 100. New pool members -- unless overridden with this value -- default to 1. | ||
reuse_nodes boolean added in 2.6 |
|
Reuses node definitions if requested. | |
server - / required |
The BIG-IP host. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
server_port - added in 2.2 |
Default: 443 |
The BIG-IP server port. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | |
state - / required |
|
Pool member state. | |
user - / required |
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You may omit this option by setting the environment variable | ||
validate_certs boolean added in 2.0 |
|
If You may omit this option by setting the environment variable |
Notes
Note
- For more information on using Ansible to manage F5 Networks devices see https://www.ansible.com/integrations/networks/f5.
- Requires the f5-sdk Python package on the host. This is as easy as
pip install f5-sdk
. - Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12.
- The F5 modules only manipulate the running configuration of the F5 product. To ensure that BIG-IP specific configuration persists to disk, be sure to include at least one task that uses the bigip_config module to save the running configuration. Refer to the module’s documentation for the correct usage of the module to save your running configuration.
Examples
- name: Add pool member
bigip_pool_member:
server: lb.mydomain.com
user: admin
password: secret
state: present
pool: my-pool
partition: Common
host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
port: 80
description: web server
connection_limit: 100
rate_limit: 50
ratio: 2
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Modify pool member ratio and description
bigip_pool_member:
server: lb.mydomain.com
user: admin
password: secret
state: present
pool: my-pool
partition: Common
host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
port: 80
ratio: 1
description: nginx server
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Remove pool member from pool
bigip_pool_member:
server: lb.mydomain.com
user: admin
password: secret
state: absent
pool: my-pool
partition: Common
host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
port: 80
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Force pool member offline
bigip_pool_member:
server: lb.mydomain.com
user: admin
password: secret
state: forced_offline
pool: my-pool
partition: Common
host: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"
port: 80
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Create members with priority groups
bigip_pool_member:
server: lb.mydomain.com
user: admin
password: secret
pool: my-pool
partition: Common
host: "{{ item.address }}"
name: "{{ item.name }}"
priority_group: "{{ item.priority_group }}"
port: 80
delegate_to: localhost
loop:
- host: 1.1.1.1
name: web1
priority_group: 4
- host: 2.2.2.2
name: web2
priority_group: 3
- host: 3.3.3.3
name: web3
priority_group: 2
- host: 4.4.4.4
name: web4
priority_group: 1
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
---|---|---|
address string |
changed |
The address of the pool member.
Sample: 1.2.3.4 |
connection_limit integer |
changed |
The new connection limit of the pool member
Sample: 1000 |
description string |
changed |
The new description of pool member.
Sample: My pool member |
fqdn string |
changed |
The FQDN of the pool member.
Sample: foo.bar.com |
fqdn_auto_populate boolean |
changed |
Whether FQDN auto population was set on the member or not.
Sample: True |
priority_group integer |
changed |
The new priority group.
Sample: 3 |
rate_limit integer |
changed |
The new rate limit, in connections per second, of the pool member.
Sample: 100 |
ratio integer |
changed |
The new pool member ratio weight.
Sample: 50 |
Status
- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by an Ansible Partner. [certified]
Authors
- Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.7/modules/bigip_pool_member_module.html