ec2_eip – manages EC2 elastic IP (EIP) addresses

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• This module can allocate or release an EIP.
• This module can associate/disassociate an EIP with instances or network interfaces.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• boto

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

- name: associate an elastic IP with an instance
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: i-1212f003
    ip: 93.184.216.119

- name: associate an elastic IP with a device
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: eni-c8ad70f3
    ip: 93.184.216.119

- name: associate an elastic IP with a device and allow reassociation
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: eni-c8ad70f3
    public_ip: 93.184.216.119
    allow_reassociation: yes

- name: disassociate an elastic IP from an instance
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: i-1212f003
    ip: 93.184.216.119
    state: absent

- name: disassociate an elastic IP with a device
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: eni-c8ad70f3
    ip: 93.184.216.119
    state: absent

- name: allocate a new elastic IP and associate it with an instance
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: i-1212f003

- name: allocate a new elastic IP without associating it to anything
  ec2_eip:
    state: present
  register: eip

- name: output the IP
  debug:
    msg: "Allocated IP is {{ eip.public_ip }}"

- name: provision new instances with ec2
  ec2:
    keypair: mykey
    instance_type: c1.medium
    image: ami-40603AD1
    wait: yes
    group: webserver
    count: 3
  register: ec2

- name: associate new elastic IPs with each of the instances
  ec2_eip:
    device_id: "{{ item }}"
  loop: "{{ ec2.instance_ids }}"

- name: allocate a new elastic IP inside a VPC in us-west-2
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-west-2
    in_vpc: yes
  register: eip

- name: output the IP
  debug:
    msg: "Allocated IP inside a VPC is {{ eip.public_ip }}"

- name: allocate eip - reuse unallocated ips (if found) with FREE tag
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: FREE

- name: allocate eip - reuse unallocted ips if tag reserved is nope
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: reserved
    tag_value: nope

- name: allocate new eip - from servers given ipv4 pool
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    public_ipv4_pool: ipv4pool-ec2-0588c9b75a25d1a02

- name: allocate eip - from a given pool (if no free addresses where dev-servers tag is dynamic)
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: dev-servers
    public_ipv4_pool: ipv4pool-ec2-0588c9b75a25d1a02

- name: allocate eip from pool - check if tag reserved_for exists and value is our hostname
  ec2_eip:
    region: us-east-1
    in_vpc: yes
    reuse_existing_ip_allowed: yes
    tag_name: reserved_for
    tag_value: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
    public_ipv4_pool: ipv4pool-ec2-0588c9b75a25d1a02

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Rick Mendes (@rickmendes) <rmendes@illumina.com>