I might mess with trying to get it to search partial hostnames later. If I
could use a wildcard, I could generate a list in a variable and then
manipulate that list.
On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 2:42:27 PM UTC-4, Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
wrote:
>
> On 6/25/20 8:13 PM, Cade Lambert wrote:
> > So I tried using the nios module to query hostnames but I couldn't find
> a way to query part of a hostname. It seemed
> > that it only accepted exact names. Is this something you've done
> before?
>
> No, but in general it scales better to see what's there and create the new
> record based on that (2 API calls) instead
> of blindly trying out (1 + n API calls).
>
> Regards
> Racke
>
> >
> > On Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 1:22:23 PM UTC-4, Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/25/20 3:51 PM, Cade Lambert wrote:
> > > My use case: we use Infoblox for our DNS. What I'm trying to do
> is automatically create a host record with the next
> > > available hostname that isn't already in DNS. My plan was to loop
> through a formatted hostname, incrementing a
> > number
> > > in that hostname until a hostname is found that isn't already in
> Infoblox. Here's what I have so far:
> > >
> > > - name: Assign next available IP address in your choosen vlan
> > > nios_host_record:
> > > name: "{{ 'hostname%02d' | format(item) }}"
> > > ipv4:
> > > - address: {nios_next_ip: '1.1.1.0/24 <http://1.1.1.0/24>'}
>
> > > state: present
> > > view: Internal
> > > provider: "{{ provider }}"
> > > loop: "{{ range(1, 5 + 1)|list }}"
> > > register: loop_result
> > > ignore_errors: true
> > >
> >
> > Hello Cade,
> >
> > you could query first the existing DNS records in Infoblox and
> determine the next hostname from these results.
> >
> > Regards
> > Racke
> >
> > > So for this example, in the DNS, there's already a hostname01,
> hostname02, hostname03. The output will be:
> > >
> > > TASK [Assign next available IP address in your choosen vlan]
> > >
> >
> *******************************************************************************************************************************
>
>
> >
> > > failed: [localhost] (item=1) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item",
> "attempts": 1, "changed": false, "code":
> > > "Client.Ibap.Data.Conflict", "item": 1, "msg": "The record
> 'hostname01' already exists.", "operation":
> > "create_object",
> > > "type": "AdmConDataError"}
> > > failed: [localhost] (item=2) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item",
> "attempts": 1, "changed": false, "code":
> > > "Client.Ibap.Data.Conflict", "item": 2, "msg": "The record
> 'hostname02' already exists.", "operation":
> > "create_object",
> > > "type": "AdmConDataError"}
> > > failed: [localhost] (item=3) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item",
> "attempts": 1, "changed": false, "code":
> > > "Client.Ibap.Data.Conflict", "item": 3, "msg": "The record
> 'hostname03' already exists.", "operation":
> > "create_object",
> > > "type": "AdmConDataError"}
> > > changed: [localhost] => (item=4)
> > > changed: [localhost] => (item=5)
> > >
> > > I'd like it to stop processing the loop at item=4, since that's
> the first success. I've messed with a few different
> > > until statements at the end but nothing seems to really work.
> Thanks.
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