a10_service_group – Manage A10 Networks AX/SoftAX/Thunder/vThunder devices’ service groups

Synopsis

  • Manage SLB (Server Load Balancing) service-group objects on A10 Networks devices via aXAPIv2.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
client_cert
path
PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication.
This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, client_key is not required.
client_key
path
PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication.
If client_cert contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required.
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If yes do not get a cached copy.
Alias thirsty has been deprecated and will be removed in 2.13.

aliases: thirsty
force_basic_auth
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Credentials specified with url_username and url_password should be passed in HTTP Header.
host
string / required
Hostname or IP of the A10 Networks device.
http_agent
string
Default:
"ansible-httpget"
Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs.
partition
-
set active-partition
password
string / required
Password for the username account.

aliases: pass, pwd
servers
-
A list of servers to add to the service group. Each list item should be a dictionary which specifies the server: and port:, but can also optionally specify the status:. See the examples below for details.

aliases: server, member
service_group
- / required
The SLB (Server Load Balancing) service-group name

aliases: service, pool, group
service_group_method
-
    Choices:
  • round-robin ←
  • weighted-rr
  • least-connection
  • weighted-least-connection
  • service-least-connection
  • service-weighted-least-connection
  • fastest-response
  • least-request
  • round-robin-strict
  • src-ip-only-hash
  • src-ip-hash
The SLB service-group load balancing method, such as round-robin or weighted-rr.

aliases: method
service_group_protocol
-
    Choices:
  • tcp ←
  • udp
The SLB service-group protocol of TCP or UDP.

aliases: proto, protocol
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
If the specified service group should exists.
url
string
HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP URL in the form (http|https|ftp)://[user[:pass]]@host.domain[:port]/path
url_password
string
The password for use in HTTP basic authentication.
If the url_username parameter is not specified, the url_password parameter will not be used.
url_username
string
The username for use in HTTP basic authentication.
This parameter can be used without url_password for sites that allow empty passwords
use_proxy
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
username
string / required
An account with administrator privileges.

aliases: admin, user
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled devices using self-signed certificates.
write_config
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If yes, any changes will cause a write of the running configuration to non-volatile memory. This will save all configuration changes, including those that may have been made manually or through other modules, so care should be taken when specifying yes.

Notes

Note

  • Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.
  • When a server doesn’t exist and is added to the service-group the server will be created.
  • Requires A10 Networks aXAPI 2.1.

Examples

# Create a new service-group
- a10_service_group:
    host: a10.mydomain.com
    username: myadmin
    password: mypassword
    partition: mypartition
    service_group: sg-80-tcp
    servers:
      - server: foo1.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
      - server: foo2.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
      - server: foo3.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
      - server: foo4.mydomain.com
        port: 8080
        status: disabled

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
content
string
success
the full info regarding the slb_service_group

Sample:
mynewservicegroup


Status

Authors

  • Eric Chou (@ericchou1)
  • Mischa Peters (@mischapeters)

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