Ansible Route53 role

Creates, updates and deletes DNS zones and records in Route53.

Requirements

• boto >= 2.24.0

Role Variables

• route53_records_to_add: List of DNS zone records to add. For differences between a CNAME record and a Route53-specific alias record, see the official docs here

• route53_records_to_remove: List of DNS zone records to remove.

• route53_zones_to_add: List of DNS zones to add.

• route53_zones_to_remove: List of DNS zones to remove.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: False
  become: False
  roles:
    - role: route53
      route53_zones_to_add:
        - zone: 'zone.xxx'
          comment: 'some comment'
          vpc_id: vpc-12345678
          vpc_region: 'eu-central-1'

      route53_records_to_add:
        - zone: 'zone.xxx'
          private_zone: True
          comment: 'zone comment'
          records:
            - record: 'in.the.zone.xxx'
              type: A
              ttl: 600
              value: '1.1.1.1'

            - record: 'by.the.zone.xxx'
              type: CNAME
              ttl: 300
              value: 'in.the.zone.xxx'

            - record: 'to.the.zone.xxx'
              type: A
              value: 'in.the.zone.xxx.'
              alias: True
              alias_hosted_zone_id: 'ABCD1234567890'

      route53_records_to_remove:
        - zone: 'zone.xxx'
          private_zone: True
          records:
            - record: 'in.the.zone.xxx'
              type: A
              ttl: 600
              value: '1.1.1.1'

            - record: 'by.the.zone.xxx'
              type: CNAME
              ttl: 300
              value: 'in.the.zone.xxx'

            - record: 'to.the.zone.xxx'
              type: A
              value: 'in.the.zone.xxx'
              alias: True
              alias_hosted_zone_id: 'ABCD1234567890'

      route53_zones_to_remove:
        - zone: 'zone.xxx'

Testing

If you want to run the tests on the provided docker environment, run the following commands:

$ cd /path/to/ansible-roles/route53
$ docker build -t ansible-roles-test tests/support
$ docker run --rm -it \
  -v $PWD:/etc/ansible/roles/route53 \
  --env AWS_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY \
  --env AWS_SECRET_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_KEY \
  --env AWS_REGION=$AWS_REGION \
  --workdir /etc/ansible/roles/route53/tests \
  ansible-roles-test

To do

• Add integration tests for private zones