clc_loadbalancer - Create, Delete shared loadbalancers in CenturyLink Cloud.¶

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
- Author

Synopsis ¶

An Ansible module to Create, Delete shared loadbalancers in CenturyLink Cloud.

Requirements ¶

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

python = 2.7
requests >= 2.5.0
clc-sdk

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
alias required		The alias of your CLC Account
description		A description for the loadbalancer
location required		The location of the datacenter where the load balancer resides in
method	Choices: leastConnection roundRobin	-The balancing method for the load balancer pool
name required		The name of the loadbalancer
nodes	Default: []	A list of nodes that needs to be added to the load balancer pool
persistence	Choices: standard sticky	The persistence method for the load balancer
port	Choices: 80 443	Port to configure on the public-facing side of the load balancer pool
state	Choices: present ← absent port_absent nodes_present nodes_absent	Whether to create or delete the load balancer pool
status	Choices: enabled ← disabled	The status of the loadbalancer

Notes ¶

Note

To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud
Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud
Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples ¶

# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples
- name: Create Loadbalancer
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: present

- name: Add node to an existing loadbalancer pool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.234
            privatePort: 80
        state: nodes_present

- name: Remove node from an existing loadbalancer pool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Create things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.234
            privatePort: 80
        state: nodes_absent

- name: Delete LoadbalancerPool
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Delete things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: port_absent

- name: Delete Loadbalancer
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Actually Delete things
      clc_loadbalancer:
        name: test
        description: test
        alias: TEST
        location: WA1
        port: 443
        nodes:
          - ipAddress: 10.11.22.123
            privatePort: 80
        state: absent

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
loadbalancer dict	success	The load balancer result object from CLC Sample: {'status': 'enabled', 'name': 'test-lb', 'links': [{'href': '/v2/sharedLoadBalancers/wfad/wa1/ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5', 'verbs': ['GET', 'PUT', 'DELETE'], 'rel': 'self'}, {'href': '/v2/sharedLoadBalancers/wfad/wa1/ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5/pools', 'verbs': ['GET', 'POST'], 'rel': 'pools'}], 'pools': [], 'ipAddress': '66.150.174.197', 'id': 'ab5b18cb81e94ab9925b61d1ca043fb5', 'description': 'test-lb'}

Status ¶

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

Author ¶

CLC Runner (@clc-runner)

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