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bigip_partition - Manage BIG-IP partitions

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • Manage BIG-IP partitions.

Requirements

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

  • f5-sdk >= 3.0.9

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
description
The description to attach to the Partition.
name
required
Name of the partition
password
required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.

aliases: pass, pwd
provider
(added in 2.5)
A dict object containing connection details.
 
ssh_keyfile
Specifies the SSH keyfile to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This argument is only used for cli transports. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead.
 
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.
 
server
required
The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.
 
user
required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set.
 
server_port
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.
 
password
required
The password for the user account used to connect to the BIG-IP. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_PASSWORD is set.

aliases: pass, pwd
 
validate_certs
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.
 
transport
required
    Choices:
  • rest
  • cli ←
Configures the transport connection to use when connecting to the remote device.
route_domain
The default Route Domain to assign to the Partition. If no route domain is specified, then the default route domain for the system (typically zero) will be used only when creating a new partition.
server
required
The BIG-IP host. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER is set.
server_port
(added in 2.2)
Default:
443
The BIG-IP server port. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_SERVER_PORT is set.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the partition should exist or not.
user
required
The username to connect to the BIG-IP with. This user must have administrative privileges on the device. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_USER is set.
validate_certs
(added in 2.0)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. Use this only on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. You can omit this option if the environment variable F5_VALIDATE_CERTS is set.

Notes

Note

  • Requires BIG-IP software version >= 12
  • 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.

Examples

- name: Create partition "foo" using the default route domain
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create partition "bar" using a custom route domain
  bigip_partition:
    name: bar
    route_domain: 3
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change route domain of partition "foo"
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    route_domain: 8
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set a description for partition "foo"
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    description: Tenant CompanyA
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete the "foo" partition
  bigip_partition:
    name: foo
    password: secret
    server: lb.mydomain.com
    user: admin
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key
Returned
Description
description
string
changed and success
The description of the partition.

Sample:
Example partition
route_domain
int
changed and success
Name of the route domain associated with the partition.


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Tim Rupp (@caphrim007)

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