elb_classic_lb - Creates or destroys Amazon ELB.

• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples
• Notes
  • Status

Synopsis

• Returns information about the load balancer.
• Will be marked changed when called only if state is changed.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• python >= 2.6
• boto

Options

Examples

# Note: None of these examples set aws_access_key, aws_secret_key, or region.
# It is assumed that their matching environment variables are set.

# Basic provisioning example (non-VPC)

- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
        proxy_protocol: True
      - protocol: https
        load_balancer_port: 443
        instance_protocol: http # optional, defaults to value of protocol setting
        instance_port: 80
        # ssl certificate required for https or ssl
        ssl_certificate_id: "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:server-certificate/company/servercerts/ProdServerCert"

# Internal ELB example

- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-vpc"
    scheme: internal
    state: present
    instance_ids:
      - i-abcd1234
    purge_instance_ids: true
    subnets:
      - subnet-abcd1234
      - subnet-1a2b3c4d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80

# Configure a health check and the access logs
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    health_check:
        ping_protocol: http # options are http, https, ssl, tcp
        ping_port: 80
        ping_path: "/index.html" # not required for tcp or ssl
        response_timeout: 5 # seconds
        interval: 30 # seconds
        unhealthy_threshold: 2
        healthy_threshold: 10
    access_logs:
        interval: 5 # minutes (defaults to 60)
        s3_location: "my-bucket" # This value is required if access_logs is set
        s3_prefix: "logs"

# Ensure ELB is gone
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent

# Ensure ELB is gone and wait for check (for default timeout)
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
    wait: yes

# Ensure ELB is gone and wait for check with timeout value
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: absent
    wait: yes
    wait_timeout: 600

# Normally, this module will purge any listeners that exist on the ELB
# but aren't specified in the listeners parameter. If purge_listeners is
# false it leaves them alone
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    purge_listeners: no

# Normally, this module will leave availability zones that are enabled
# on the ELB alone. If purge_zones is true, then any extraneous zones
# will be removed
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "test-please-delete"
    state: present
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    purge_zones: yes

# Creates a ELB and assigns a list of subnets to it.
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    state: present
    name: 'New ELB'
    security_group_ids: 'sg-123456, sg-67890'
    region: us-west-2
    subnets: 'subnet-123456,subnet-67890'
    purge_subnets: yes
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80

# Create an ELB with connection draining, increased idle timeout and cross availability
# zone load balancing
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    connection_draining_timeout: 60
    idle_timeout: 300
    cross_az_load_balancing: "yes"
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80

# Create an ELB with load balancer stickiness enabled
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    stickiness:
      type: loadbalancer
      enabled: yes
      expiration: 300

# Create an ELB with application stickiness enabled
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    stickiness:
      type: application
      enabled: yes
      cookie: SESSIONID

# Create an ELB and add tags
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    tags:
      Name: "New ELB"
      stack: "production"
      client: "Bob"

# Delete all tags from an ELB
- local_action:
    module: ec2_elb_lb
    name: "New ELB"
    state: present
    region: us-east-1
    zones:
      - us-east-1a
      - us-east-1d
    listeners:
      - protocol: http
        load_balancer_port: 80
        instance_port: 80
    tags: {}

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

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