Infoblox NIOS Modules for Ansible Collections

About

Infoblox NIOS Modules for Ansible Collections 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_dtc_lbdn – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC LBDN records

• nios_dtc_monitor_http – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC HTTP monitors

• nios_dtc_monitor_icmp – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC ICMP monitors

• nios_dtc_monitor_pdp – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC PDP monitors

• nios_dtc_monitor_sip – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC SIP monitors

• nios_dtc_monitor_snmp – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC SNMP monitors

• nios_dtc_monitor_tcp – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC TCP monitors

• nios_dtc_pool – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC pools

• nios_dtc_server – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC server records

• nios_dtc_topology – Configure Infoblox NIOS DTC topologies

• 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_range - Configure Infoblox NIOS Network Range object

• nios_restartservices - Controlled restart of Infoblox NIOS services

• 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 3.10 or later

• Ansible Core version 2.14 or later

• NIOS 8.6.x and 9.0.x

• Infoblox WAPI version 2.9 or later

Note: For modules of DTC objects to function properly, Infoblox recommends WAPI version 2.12 or later.

Prerequisites

Install the infoblox-client WAPI package. To install, 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 as 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
    

• For offline installation on the Ansible control machine, download the required tar archive version of the collection from Infoblox Nios Modules collections and run the command given below in ~/.ansible directory:

  • $ ansible-galaxy collection install infoblox-nios_modules-<version>.tar.gz -p ./collections
    

Installation from GitHub

• Install the collection directly from the GitHub repository using the latest commit on the master branch:

  • $ ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible.git,master
    

• For offline installation on the Ansible control machine, to git clone and install from this repo, follow these steps:

  • Clone the repo:

    $ git clone https://github.com/infobloxopen/infoblox-ansible.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 infoblox-nios_modules-<version>.tar.gz -p ./collections
    

Please refer to our Ansible deployment guide for more details.

Playbooks

Latest sample playbooks and examples are available at playbooks.

Releasing

Next release

Dates TBD

Current release

1.6.1 on 19 Dec 2023

Versioning

• galaxy.yml in the master branch will always contain the version of the current major or minor release. It will be updated right after a release.
• version_added needs to be used for every new feature and module/plugin, and needs to coincide with the next minor/major release version. (This will eventually be enforced by CI.)

Deprecation

• Deprecations are done by version number (not by date).
• New deprecations can be added during every minor release, under the condition that they do not break backward compatibility.

Contributing

We welcome your contributions to Infoblox Nios Modules. See CONTRIBUTING.md 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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Issues or RFEs

You can open an issue or request for enhancement here