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A collection of Ansible Roles to automate Infoblox Core Network Services
https://github.com/network-automation/dynamic-infoblox

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A collection of Ansible Roles to automate Infoblox Core Network Services

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Dynamically create host records in Infoblox using Ansible!



A collection of roles featuring some of Infoblox's new integration in Core v2.5 to: 

1. Create zones and add host records at the next available ip addresses using a Name Server Group

2. Start the DNS service on the Grid Master

3. Predefine a Grid Master Candidate

4. Predefine a Grid Member

5. Join a Grid Master Candidate or Grid Member to a Grid

6. Update a Name Server Group to account for new Infoblox Grid appliances

7. Take a configuration snapshot



Requirements

------------



The infoblox-client installed on the targeted localhost machine. Ansible Core >= v2.5 for the infoblox modules and lookup plugin.



Role Variables

--------------

Example nios_provider supplied below. This should be vaulted in group_vars/localhost/main.yml for production use.



```yaml

nios_provider:

   #Out-of-the-box defaults specified here

   host: 192.168.1.2

   username: admin

   password: infoblox



wapi_version: 'v2.7'

```



Example Playbooks

-----------------

Most automation functionality in this repository is better demonstrated by calling of roles (see below), but each role has a corresponding playbook that can be called for the same effect.



Here are some of the common overrides at the playbook level of this repository's core role, dynamicInfoblox:



```

ansible-playbook create_dynamic_records.yml

ansible-playbook create_dynamic_records.yml -e "host_count=10"

ansible-playbook create_dynamic_records.yml -e "ansible_zone=redhat.com"

ansible-playbook create_dynamic_records.yml -e "ansible_subnet=10.10.10.0/24"

```



Another example playbook creates a snapshot of the gridmaster configuration at any time:

```

ansible-playbook take_snapshot.yml

```

_Note: Restoring the snapshot is currently a manual step but I hope to have automation here soon too._



This calls a master playbook to demo the invocation of several roles in succession:

```

ansible-playbook master-demo-playbook.yml

```



Role Calls

-----------------

Overrides at the role level allow single playbooks to call the same roles in succession with new network information.



The default invocation creates a forward/reverse zone, subnet, and gateway address using out-of-the-box configurations, but does not generate additional hosts:

```yaml

    - hosts: localhost

      connection: local

      roles:

         - { role: dynamicInfoblox }

```

Specify a host_count to create (several) new host records at a time:

```yaml

         - { role: dynamicInfoblox, host_count: 10 }

```

Override the default zone:

```yaml

         - { role: dynamicInfoblox, ansible_zone: redhat.com }

```

Override the default subnet. The default gateway_address is automated to reflect changes overriden here:

```yaml

         - { role: dynamicInfoblox, ansible_subnet: 10.10.10.0/24 }

```

Start the dns service on an Infoblox appliance:

```yaml

         - { role: updateService, grid_fqdn: gm.ansible.local, state: started }

```

Predefine a new Grid Master Candidate:

```yaml

         - { role: predefineGridmasterCandidate, master_candidate_name: gmc.ansible.local, master_candidate_address: 192.168.2.2, master_candidate_gateway: 192.168.2.254, master_candidate_subnet_mask:255.255.255.0 }

```

Predefine a new Grid Member:

```yaml

         - { role: predefineGridmember, member_name: gmc.ansible.local, member_address: 192.168.2.2, member_gateway: 192.168.2.254, member_subnet_mask:255.255.255.0 }

```

Join a Grid Master Candidate or Grid Member to the Grid:

```yaml         

         - { role: joinGrid, join_grid_host: 192.168.2.3 }

```         

Take a snapshot of Infoblox configuration:

```yaml

         - { role: snapshotConfiguration }

```



Author Information

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```

Branden Pleines

Bret Pleines

```