bigip_do_deploy – Manages DO declarations sent to BIG-IP

New in version 1.0.0.

Synopsis

• Manages DO declarations sent to BIG-IP.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
content raw			Declaration to be configured on the system. This parameter is most often used along with the file or template lookup plugins. Refer to the examples section for correct usage. For anything advanced or with formatting consider using the template lookup. This can additionally be used for specifying application service configurations directly in YAML, however that is not an encouraged practice and, if used at all, should only be used for the absolute smallest of configurations to prevent your Playbooks from becoming too large. If you content includes encrypted values (such as ciphertexts, passphrases, etc), the returned changed value will always be true. If you are using the to_nice_json filter, it will cause this module to fail because the purpose of that filter is to format the JSON to be human-readable and this process includes inserting "extra characters that break JSON validators.
dry_run boolean added in 2.0.0	Choices: no yes		Set this option to check what changes would be made on device if DO declaration was committed on device. When true the submitted DO declaration in content is checked against existing configuration for any changes, with diff returned in results, without making any changes. This option is mutually exclusive with task_id, and requires content to be specified. No changes are required in to be made by the user to DO declaration to perform a dry run. While the operation is asynchronous, module does not require re-running to check for task status, for longer running tasks which would be with larger DO declarations, it is recommended to increase timeout parameter from its default value.
task_id string			The ID of the async task as returned by the system in a previous module run. Used to query the status of the task on the device, useful with longer running operations that require restarting services. This option is mutually exclusive with dry_run.
timeout integer	Default: 300		The amount of time in seconds to wait for the DO async interface to complete its task. The accepted value range is between 150 and 3600 seconds. If the device needs to restart the module will return with no change and an appropriate message. In such case, it is up to the user to pause task execution until device is ready, see EXAMPLES section.

Notes

Note

• While this module is not idempotent it offers a dry-run option to check for changes in configuration before they are committed, see Parameters section for details.

Examples

- name: Start complex declaration with restart
  bigip_do_deploy:
    content: "{{ lookup('file', 'do_provision_restart.json') }}"
  register: task

- name: Check for task that will reboot
  bigip_do_deploy:
    task_id: "{{ task.task_id }}"
  register: result

- name: Wait for 4 minutes if device is restarting services
  pause:
    minutes: 4
  when:
    - result.message == "Device is restarting services, unable to check task status."

- name: Check for task again after restart
  bigip_do_deploy:
    task_id: "{{ task.task_id }}"
  register: repeat
  when:
    - result.message == "Device is restarting services, unable to check task status."

- name: Dry run DO declaration
  bigip_do_deploy:
    content: "{{ lookup('file', 'do_provision.json') }}"
    dry_run: 'yes'
  register: result

- name: Assert Dry run DO declaration
  assert:
    that:
      - result is not changed
      - result is success
      - result.message is search("Dry run completed successfully")
      - result.diff | length > 0

Return Values

The following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
content dictionary	changed	The declaration sent to the system. Sample: hash/dictionary of values
diff list	when dry_run is yes	Returns the detailed results of a diff from dry run operation. Sample: [{'foo': 'bar'}, {'baz': 'bar'}]
message string	always	Informative message of the task status. Sample: task has been completed
task_id string	changed	The task ID returned by the system. Sample: 9fe61ef703d0d3192016

Status

Authors

• Wojciech Wypior (@wojtek0806)