community.hrobot.failover_ip_info module – Retrieve information on Hetzner’s failover IPs

Note

This module is part of the community.hrobot collection (version 2.0.1).

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.hrobot.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.hrobot.failover_ip_info.

Synopsis

  • Retrieve information on Hetzner’s failover IPs.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

failover_ip

string / required

The failover IP address.

hetzner_password

string / required

The password for the Robot web-service user.

hetzner_user

string / required

The username for the Robot web-service user.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

action_group

Action group: community.hrobot.robot

added in community.hrobot 1.6.0

Use group/community.hrobot.robot in module_defaults to set defaults for this module.

check_mode

Support: full

This action does not modify state.

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

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

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

See Also

See also

Failover IP documentation

Hetzner’s documentation on failover IPs.

community.hrobot.failover_ip

Manage failover IPs.

Examples

- name: Get value of failover IP 1.2.3.4
  community.hrobot.failover_ip_info:
    hetzner_user: foo
    hetzner_password: bar
    failover_ip: 1.2.3.4
    value: 5.6.7.8
  register: result

- name: Print value of failover IP 1.2.3.4 in case it is routed
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "1.2.3.4 routes to {{ result.value }}"
  when: result.state == 'routed'

Return Values

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

Key

Description

failover_ip

string

The failover IP.

Returned: success

Sample: "1.2.3.4"

failover_netmask

string

The netmask for the failover IP.

Returned: success

Sample: "255.255.255.255"

server_ip

string

The main IP of the server this failover IP is associated to.

This is not the server the failover IP is routed to.

Returned: success

server_number

integer

The number of the server this failover IP is associated to.

This is not the server the failover IP is routed to.

Returned: success

state

string

Will be routed or unrouted.

Returned: success

value

string

The value of the failover IP.

Will be none if the IP is unrouted.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)