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

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Status

Synopsis

Manages domains and records via the DNSimple API, see the docs: http://developer.dnsimple.com/.

Requirements

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

dnsimple >= 1.0.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	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.
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		List of records to ensure they either exist or do not exist.
solo boolean	Choices: no ← yes	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.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	whether the record should exist or not.
ttl integer	Default: 3600	The TTL to give the new record in seconds.
type string	Choices: A ALIAS CNAME MX SPF URL TXT NS SRV NAPTR PTR AAAA SSHFP HINFO POOL	The type of DNS record to create.
value string		Record value. Must be specified when trying to ensure a record exists.

Notes

Note

DNSimple API v1 is deprecated. Please install dnsimple-python>=1.0.0 which uses v2 API.

Examples

- name: Authenticate using email and API token and fetch all domains
  dnsimple:
    account_email: [email protected]
    account_api_token: dummyapitoken
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Fetch my.com domain records
  dnsimple:
    domain: my.com
    state: present
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: records

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

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

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

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

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

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

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

Alex Coomans (@drcapulet)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/dnsimple_module.html