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ec2_group - maintain an ec2 VPC security group.

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis

  • maintains ec2 security groups. This module has a dependency on python-boto >= 2.5

Requirements

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

  • boto
  • boto3
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
aws_access_key Default:
None
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 Default:
None
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
description
Description of the security group. Required when state is present.
ec2_url Default:
None
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.
group_id
(added in 2.4)
Id of group to delete (works only with absent).
One of and only one of name or group_id is required.
name
Name of the security group.
One of and only one of name or group_id is required.
Required if state=present.
profile
(added in 1.6)
Default:
None
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
purge_rules
(added in 1.8)
Default:
true
Purge existing rules on security group that are not found in rules
purge_rules_egress
(added in 1.8)
Default:
true
Purge existing rules_egress on security group that are not found in rules_egress
purge_tags
(added in 2.4)
    Choices:
  • yes ←
  • no
If yes, existing tags will be purged from the resource to match exactly what is defined by tags parameter. If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified.
region
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
rules
List of firewall inbound rules to enforce in this group (see example). If none are supplied, no inbound rules will be enabled. Rules list may include its own name in `group_name`. This allows idempotent loopback additions (e.g. allow group to access itself). Rule sources list support was added in version 2.4. This allows to define multiple sources per source type as well as multiple source types per rule. Prior to 2.4 an individual source is allowed. In version 2.5 support for rule descriptions was added.
rules_egress
(added in 1.6)
List of firewall outbound rules to enforce in this group (see example). If none are supplied, a default all-out rule is assumed. If an empty list is supplied, no outbound rules will be enabled. Rule Egress sources list support was added in version 2.4. In version 2.5 support for rule descriptions was added.
security_token
(added in 1.6)
Default:
None
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
(added in 1.4)
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Create or delete a security group
tags
(added in 2.4)
A dictionary of one or more tags to assign to the security group.
validate_certs
(added in 1.5)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.
vpc_id
ID of the VPC to create the group in.

Notes

Note

  • If a rule declares a group_name and that group doesn’t exist, it will be automatically created. In that case, group_desc should be provided as well. The module will refuse to create a depended-on group without a description.
  • 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 http://boto.readthedocs.org/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

- name: example using security group rule descriptions
  ec2_group:
    name: "{{ name }}"
    description: sg with rule descriptions
    vpc_id: vpc-xxxxxxxx
    profile: "{{ aws_profile }}"
    region: us-east-1
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
        - 80
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
        rule_desc: allow all on port 80

- name: example ec2 group
  ec2_group:
    name: example
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    aws_secret_key: SECRET
    aws_access_key: ACCESS
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 80
        to_port: 80
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 22
        to_port: 22
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 443
        to_port: 443
        group_id: amazon-elb/sg-87654321/amazon-elb-sg
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 3306
        to_port: 3306
        group_id: 123412341234/sg-87654321/exact-name-of-sg
      - proto: udp
        from_port: 10050
        to_port: 10050
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8
      - proto: udp
        from_port: 10051
        to_port: 10051
        group_id: sg-12345678
      - proto: icmp
        from_port: 8 # icmp type, -1 = any type
        to_port:  -1 # icmp subtype, -1 = any subtype
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8
      - proto: all
        # the containing group name may be specified here
        group_name: example
      - proto: all
        # in the 'proto' attribute, if you specify -1, all, or a protocol number other than tcp, udp, icmp, or 58 (ICMPv6),
        # traffic on all ports is allowed, regardless of any ports you specify
        from_port: 10050 # this value is ignored
        to_port: 10050 # this value is ignored
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/8

    rules_egress:
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 80
        to_port: 80
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
        cidr_ipv6: 64:ff9b::/96
        group_name: example-other
        # description to use if example-other needs to be created
        group_desc: other example EC2 group

- name: example2 ec2 group
  ec2_group:
    name: example2
    description: an example2 EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
      # 'ports' rule keyword was introduced in version 2.4. It accepts a single port value or a list of values including ranges (from_port-to_port).
      - proto: tcp
        ports: 22
        group_name: example-vpn
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 80
          - 443
          - 8080-8099
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
      # Rule sources list support was added in version 2.4. This allows to define multiple sources per source type as well as multiple source types per rule.
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 6379
          - 26379
        group_name:
          - example-vpn
          - example-redis
      - proto: tcp
        ports: 5665
        group_name: example-vpn
        cidr_ip:
          - 172.16.1.0/24
          - 172.16.17.0/24
        cidr_ipv6:
          - 2607:F8B0::/32
          - 64:ff9b::/96
        group_id:
          - sg-edcd9784

- name: "Delete group by its id"
  ec2_group:
    group_id: sg-33b4ee5b
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
description
string
on create/update
Description of security group

Sample:
My Security Group
group_id
string
on create/update
Security group id

Sample:
sg-abcd1234
group_name
string
on create/update
Security group name

Sample:
My Security Group
ip_permissions
list
on create/update
Inbound rules associated with the security group.

Sample:
[{'from_port': 8182, 'ip_protocol': 'tcp', 'ipv6_ranges': [], 'to_port': 8182, 'ip_ranges': [{'cidr_ip': '1.1.1.1/32'}], 'user_id_group_pairs': [], 'prefix_list_ids': []}]
ip_permissions_egress
list
on create/update
Outbound rules associated with the security group.

Sample:
[{'ip_protocol': -1, 'ip_ranges': [{'ipv6_ranges': [], 'cidr_ip': '0.0.0.0/0', 'user_id_group_pairs': [], 'prefix_list_ids': []}]}]
owner_id
int
on create/update
AWS Account ID of the security group

Sample:
123456789012
tags
dict
on create/update
Tags associated with the security group

Sample:
{'Name': 'My Security Group', 'Purpose': 'protecting stuff'}
vpc_id
string
on create/update
ID of VPC to which the security group belongs

Sample:
vpc-abcd1234


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.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

  • Andrew de Quincey (@adq)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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