openvswitch_bridge – Manage Open vSwitch bridges

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Ansible/docs/2.7/modules/openvswitch bridge module


openvswitch_bridge – Manage Open vSwitch bridges

New in version 1.4.


Synopsis

  • Manage Open vSwitch bridges

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ovs-vsctl

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

bridge

- / required

Name of bridge or fake bridge to manage

external_ids

-

added in 2.0

A dictionary of external-ids. Omitting this parameter is a No-op. To clear all external-ids pass an empty value.

fail_mode

-

added in 2.0

  • secure
  • standalone

Set bridge fail-mode. The default value (None) is a No-op.

parent

-

added in 2.3

Bridge parent of the fake bridge to manage

set

-

added in 2.3

Run set command after bridge configuration. This parameter is non-idempotent, play will always return changed state if present

state

-

  • present

  • absent

Whether the bridge should exist

timeout

-

Default:

5

How long to wait for ovs-vswitchd to respond

vlan

-

added in 2.3

The VLAN id of the fake bridge to manage (must be between 0 and 4095). This parameter is required if parent parameter is set.



Examples

# Create a bridge named br-int
- openvswitch_bridge:
    bridge: br-int
    state: present

# Create a fake bridge named br-int within br-parent on the VLAN 405
- openvswitch_bridge:
    bridge: br-int
    parent: br-parent
    vlan: 405
    state: present

# Create an integration bridge
- openvswitch_bridge:
    bridge: br-int
    state: present
    fail_mode: secure
  args:
    external_ids:
      bridge-id: br-int

Status

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

  • David Stygstra (@stygstra)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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