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# route53 – add or delete entries in Amazons Route53 DNS service

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

## Synopsis

- Creates and deletes DNS records in Amazons Route53 service

## Requirements

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

- python >= 2.6
- boto

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
alias boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Indicates if this is an alias record.
alias_evaluate_target_health boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Whether or not to evaluate an alias target health. Useful for aliases to Elastic Load Balancers.
alias_hosted_zone_id - |  | The hosted zone identifier.
aws_access_key string |  | AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key string |  | AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used. aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
debug_botocore_endpoint_logs boolean added in 2.8 | Choices: no ← yes | Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.
ec2_url string |  | Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
failover - |  | Failover resource record sets only. Whether this is the primary or secondary resource record set. Allowed values are PRIMARY and SECONDARY
health_check - |  | Health check to associate with this record
hosted_zone_id - |  | The Hosted Zone ID of the DNS zone to modify This is a required parameter, if parameter `zone` is not supplied.
identifier - |  | Have to be specified for Weighted, latency-based and failover resource record sets only. An identifier that differentiates among multiple resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type.
overwrite boolean | Choices: no yes | Whether an existing record should be overwritten on create if values do not match
private_zone boolean | Choices: no ← yes | If set to `yes`, the private zone matching the requested name within the domain will be used if there are both public and private zones. The default is to use the public zone.
profile string |  | Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
record - / required |  | The full DNS record to create or delete
region - |  | Latency-based resource record sets only Among resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines which region this should be associated with for the latency-based routing
retry_interval - | Default: 500 | In the case that route53 is still servicing a prior request, this module will wait and try again after this many seconds. If you have many domain names, the default of 500 seconds may be too long.
security_token string |  | AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used. aliases: access_token
state - / required | Choices: present absent get create delete | Specifies the state of the resource record. As of Ansible 2.4, the command option has been changed to state as default and the choices 'present' and 'absent' have been added, but command still works as well. aliases: command
ttl - | Default: "3600 (one hour)" | The TTL to give the new record
type - / required | Choices: A CNAME MX AAAA TXT PTR SRV SPF CAA NS SOA | The type of DNS record to create
validate_certs boolean | Choices: no yes ← | When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
value - |  | The new value when creating a DNS record. YAML lists or multiple comma-spaced values are allowed for non-alias records. When deleting a record all values for the record must be specified or Route53 will not delete it.
vpc_id - |  | When used in conjunction with private_zone: true, this will only modify records in the private hosted zone attached to this VPC. This allows you to have multiple private hosted zones, all with the same name, attached to different VPCs.
wait boolean | Choices: no ← yes | Wait until the changes have been replicated to all Amazon Route 53 DNS servers.
wait_timeout - | Default: 300 | How long to wait for the changes to be replicated, in seconds.
weight - |  | Weighted resource record sets only. Among resource record sets that have the same combination of DNS name and type, a value that determines what portion of traffic for the current resource record set is routed to the associated location.
zone - |  | The DNS zone to modify This is a required parameter, if parameter `hosted_zone_id` is not supplied.

## Notes

Note

- If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence `AWS_URL` or `EC2_URL`, `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` or `AWS_ACCESS_KEY` or `EC2_ACCESS_KEY`, `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY` or `AWS_SECRET_KEY` or `EC2_SECRET_KEY`, `AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN` or `EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN`, `AWS_REGION` or `EC2_REGION`
- Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See https://boto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
- `AWS_REGION` or `EC2_REGION` can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

## Examples

    # Add new.foo.com as an A record with 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          record: new.foo.com
          type: A
          ttl: 7200
          value: 1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2,3.3.3.3
          wait: yes

    # Update new.foo.com as an A record with a list of 3 IPs and wait until the changes have been replicated
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          record: new.foo.com
          type: A
          ttl: 7200
          value:
            - 1.1.1.1
            - 2.2.2.2
            - 3.3.3.3
          wait: yes

    # Retrieve the details for new.foo.com
    - route53:
          state: get
          zone: foo.com
          record: new.foo.com
          type: A
      register: rec

    # Delete new.foo.com A record using the results from the get command
    - route53:
          state: absent
          zone: foo.com
          record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
          ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
          type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
          value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"

    # Add an AAAA record.  Note that because there are colons in the value
    # that the IPv6 address must be quoted. Also shows using the old form command=create.
    - route53:
          command: create
          zone: foo.com
          record: localhost.foo.com
          type: AAAA
          ttl: 7200
          value: "::1"

    # Add a SRV record with multiple fields for a service on port 22222
    # For more information on SRV records see:
    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          record: "_example-service._tcp.foo.com"
          type: SRV
          value: "0 0 22222 host1.foo.com,0 0 22222 host2.foo.com"

    # Add a TXT record. Note that TXT and SPF records must be surrounded
    # by quotes when sent to Route 53:
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          record: localhost.foo.com
          type: TXT
          ttl: 7200
          value: '"bar"'

    # Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB:
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          record: elb.foo.com
          type: A
          value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
          alias: True
          alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"

    # Retrieve the details for elb.foo.com
    - route53:
          state: get
          zone: foo.com
          record: elb.foo.com
          type: A
      register: rec

    # Delete an alias record using the results from the get command
    - route53:
          state: absent
          zone: foo.com
          record: "{{ rec.set.record }}"
          ttl: "{{ rec.set.ttl }}"
          type: "{{ rec.set.type }}"
          value: "{{ rec.set.value }}"
          alias: True
          alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ rec.set.alias_hosted_zone_id }}"

    # Add an alias record that points to an Amazon ELB and evaluates it health:
    - route53:
        state: present
        zone: foo.com
        record: elb.foo.com
        type: A
        value: "{{ elb_dns_name }}"
        alias: True
        alias_hosted_zone_id: "{{ elb_zone_id }}"
        alias_evaluate_target_health: True

    # Add an AAAA record with Hosted Zone ID.
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          hosted_zone_id: Z2AABBCCDDEEFF
          record: localhost.foo.com
          type: AAAA
          ttl: 7200
          value: "::1"

    # Use a routing policy to distribute traffic:
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: foo.com
          record: www.foo.com
          type: CNAME
          value: host1.foo.com
          ttl: 30
          # Routing policy
          identifier: "host1@www"
          weight: 100
          health_check: "d994b780-3150-49fd-9205-356abdd42e75"

    # Add a CAA record (RFC 6844):
    - route53:
          state: present
          zone: example.com
          record: example.com
          type: CAA
          value:
            - 0 issue "ca.example.net"
            - 0 issuewild ";"
            - 0 iodef "mailto:security@example.com"

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
nameservers list | when state is 'get' | nameservers associated with the zone Sample: ['ns-1036.awsdns-00.org.', 'ns-516.awsdns-00.net.', 'ns-1504.awsdns-00.co.uk.', 'ns-1.awsdns-00.com.']
set complex | when state is 'get' | info specific to the resource record
| alias boolean | always | whether this is an alias
| failover NoneType | always |
| health_check NoneType | always | health_check associated with this record
| identifier NoneType | always |
| record string | always | domain name for the record set Sample: new.foo.com.
| region None | always |
| ttl string | always | resource record cache TTL Sample: 3600
| type string | always | record set type Sample: A
| value string | always | value Sample: 52.43.18.27
| values list | always | values Sample: ['52.43.18.27']
| weight string | always | weight of the record Sample: 3
| zone string | always | zone this record set belongs to Sample: foo.bar.com.

## Status

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

### Authors

- Bruce Pennypacker (@bpennypacker)
- Mike Buzzetti (@jimbydamonk)

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