Infoblox Ansible Collections for vNIOS

About

Infoblox Ansible Collection for vNIOS allows managing your NIOS objects through APIs.
It, thus, enables the DNS and IPAM automation of VM workloads that are deployed across multiple platforms. The nios_modules collection provides modules and plugins for managing the networks, IP addresses, and DNS records in NIOS. This collection is hosted on Ansible Galaxy under infoblox.nios_modules.

Modules Overview:

The infoblox.nios_modules collection has the following content:

Modules:

• nios_a_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS A records

• nios_aaaa_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS AAAA records

• nios_cname_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS CNAME records

• nios_dns_view – Configure Infoblox NIOS DNS views

• nios_fixed_address – Configure Infoblox NIOS DHCP Fixed Address

• nios_host_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS host records

• nios_member – Configure Infoblox NIOS members

• nios_mx_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS MX records

• nios_naptr_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS NAPTR records

• nios_network – Configure Infoblox NIOS network object

• nios_network_view – Configure Infoblox NIOS network views

• nios_nsgroup – Configure Infoblox DNS Nameserver Groups

• nios_ptr_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS PTR records

• nios_srv_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS SRV records

• nios_txt_record – Configure Infoblox NIOS txt records

• nios_zone – Configure Infoblox NIOS DNS zones

Plugins:

• nios_inventory: List all the hosts with records created in NIOS

• nios_lookup: Look up queries for NIOS database objects

• nios_next_ip: Returns the next available IP address for a network

• nios_next_network: Returns the next available network addresses for a given network CIDR

Installation

Dependencies

• Python version 2.7 and above

• Ansible version 2.9.0 or above

• NIOS 8.2.4 and above

Prerequisites

You need to install the infoblox-client package. To install infoblox-client WAPI package, run the following command:

$ pip install infoblox-client

Installation of nios_modules Collection

The nios_modules collection can be installed either from Ansible Galaxy or directly from git. It is recommended to install collections from Ansible Galaxy are those are more stable than the ones in the git branch.

Installation from Ansible Galaxy

To directly install the nios_modules collection from Ansible Galaxy, run the following command:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install infoblox.nios_modules

The collection folder would be installed at ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/infoblox/nios_modules

Installation from Git

To git clone and install from this repo, follow these steps:

• Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible/nios\_modules.git

• **Build the collection: **

  To build a collection, run the following command from inside the root directory of the collection:

$ ansible-galaxy collection build

This creates a tarball of the built collection in the current directory.

• Install the collection:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install <collection-name>.tar.gz -p ./collections

Please refer to our Ansible deployment guide for more details.

Resources

• Infoblox NIOS modules on Ansible documentation

• Infoblox workspace in Ansible Galaxy

• Infoblox Ansible deployment guide

License

This code is published under GPL v3.0

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Support

Infoblox supports the existing modules in the collections. You can open an issue or request for enhancement here