community.general.dnsimple module – Interface with dnsimple.com (a DNS hosting service)

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.9).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.dnsimple.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • dnsimple >= 2.0.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

account_api_token

string

Account API token. See account_email for more information.

account_email

string

Account email. If omitted, the environment variables DNSIMPLE_EMAIL and DNSIMPLE_API_TOKEN will be looked for.

If those aren’t found, a .dnsimple file will be looked for, see: https://github.com/mikemaccana/dnsimple-python#getting-started.

.dnsimple config files are only supported in dnsimple-python<2.0.0

domain

string

Domain to work with. Can be the domain name (e.g. “mydomain.com”) or the numeric ID of the domain in DNSimple.

If omitted, a list of domains will be returned.

If domain is present but the domain doesn’t exist, it will be created.

priority

integer

Record priority.

record

string

Record to add, if blank a record for the domain will be created, supports the wildcard (*).

record_ids

list / elements=string

List of records to ensure they either exist or do not exist.

sandbox

boolean

added in community.general 3.5.0

Use the DNSimple sandbox environment.

Requires a dedicated account in the dnsimple sandbox environment.

Check https://developer.dnsimple.com/sandbox/ for more information.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

solo

boolean

Whether the record should be the only one for that record type and record name.

Only use with state is set to present on a record.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

whether the record should exist or not.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

ttl

integer

The TTL to give the new record in seconds.

Default: 3600

type

string

The type of DNS record to create.

Choices:

  • "A"

  • "ALIAS"

  • "CNAME"

  • "MX"

  • "SPF"

  • "URL"

  • "TXT"

  • "NS"

  • "SRV"

  • "NAPTR"

  • "PTR"

  • "AAAA"

  • "SSHFP"

  • "HINFO"

  • "POOL"

  • "CAA"

value

string

Record value.

Must be specified when trying to ensure a record exists.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Authenticate using email and API token and fetch all domains
  community.general.dnsimple:
    account_email: test@example.com
    account_api_token: dummyapitoken
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete a domain
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create a test.my.com A record to point to 127.0.0.1
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: test
    type: A
    value: 127.0.0.1
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: record

- name: Delete record using record_ids
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record_ids: '{{ record["id"] }}'
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Create a my.com CNAME record to example.com
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: ''
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Change TTL value for a record
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: ''
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    ttl: 600
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete the record
  community.general.dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    record: ''
    type: CNAME
    value: example.com
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Alex Coomans (@drcapulet)