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Ionardi
Ionardi

Reputation: 35

How to add A record only in DigitalOcean DNS using Ansible?

How can I add an A record to an existing DigitalOcean DNS domain using Ansible?

I tried the following:

---
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
    - digital_ocean_domain:
        state: present
        name: my.example.com

    - digital_ocean_domain:
        state: present
        name: test1.my.example.com
        ip: 127.0.0.1

But the second task adds a full domain test1.my.example.com (with NS records) along the A record for test1.my.example.com.

I wanted to add just the A record for test1.my.example.com to the domain created in first task.

For reasons quite obvious, I don't want a separate domain for every single host.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 532

Answers (2)

Curtis Mattoon
Curtis Mattoon

Reputation: 4742

The community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_domain_record has been added to the collection.

You can install it with:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.digitalocean

Given an existing domain (with NS & SOA records), you should be able to add a specific record like so:

- name: Create Droplet
  community.digitalocean.droplet: {...}
  register: dx

- name: Create DNS Entry for Droplet
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_domain_record:
      state: present
      example: "{{ domain }}"
      type: A
      name: "www"
      data: "{{ dx.data.ip_address }}"

This example registers the public IP address of a new droplet as www.{{ domain }}, where domain=example.com

Upvotes: 1

mdaniel
mdaniel

Reputation: 33203

There is no such ansible module (although there was one making its way through PR, across three repo renames but it was closed by the ansible team), but there is an open issue you can track.

In the meantime, you can accomplish that via the Domain Record API, which you can package up into a "playbook local" module, if having this much yaml bothers you.

- uri:
    url: "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/{{ dns_domain }}/records"
    headers:
      accept: application/json
      authorization: Bearer {{ oauth2_token }}
    return_content: yes
  register: domain_records_resp

- when: domain_host not in (domain_records_resp.domain_records | map(attribute="name") | list)
  uri:
    method: POST
    url: "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/domains/{{ dns_domain }}/records"
    headers:
      authorization: Bearer {{ oauth2_token }}
    body: '{{ create_record | to_json }}'
    body_format: json
    return_content: yes
  vars:
    create_record:
        data: 127.0.0.1
        flags: null
        name: '{{ domain_host }}'
        port: null
        priority: null
        tag: null
        ttl: 1800
        type: A
        weight: null

Upvotes: 1

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