vyos_interface - Manage Interface on VyOS network devices¶

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Support
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This module provides declarative management of Interfaces on VyOS network devices.

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
aggregate			List of Interfaces definitions.
delay		Default: 10	Time in seconds to wait before checking for the operational state on remote device. This wait is applicable for operational state argument which are state with values `up`/`down` and neighbors.
description			Description of Interface.
duplex		Choices: full half auto ←	Interface link status.
enabled			Interface link status.
mtu			Maximum size of transmit packet.
name required			Name of the Interface.
neighbors (added in 2.5)			Check the operational state of given interface `name` for LLDP neighbor. The following suboptions are available.
	host		LLDP neighbor host for given interface `name`.
	port		LLDP neighbor port to which given interface `name` is connected.
provider			Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using `connection: network_cli`. For more information please see the Network Guide. A dict object containing connection details.
	username		Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME` will be used instead.
	host required		Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport.
	ssh_keyfile		Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE` will be used instead.
	timeout	Default: 10	Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error.
	password		Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD` will be used instead.
	port	Default: 22	Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device.
speed			Interface link speed.
state		Choices: present ← absent up down	State of the Interface configuration, `up` means present and operationally up and `down` means present and operationally `down`

Notes ¶

Note

Tested against VYOS 1.1.7
For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide

Examples ¶

- name: configure interface
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth0
    description: test-interface

- name: remove interface
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth0
    state: absent

- name: make interface down
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth0
    enabled: False

- name: make interface up
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth0
    enabled: True

- name: Configure interface speed, mtu, duplex
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth5
    state: present
    speed: 100
    mtu: 256
    duplex: full

- name: Set interface using aggregate
  vyos_interface:
    aggregate:
      - { name: eth1, description: test-interface-1,  speed: 100, duplex: half, mtu: 512}
      - { name: eth2, description: test-interface-2,  speed: 1000, duplex: full, mtu: 256}

- name: Disable interface on aggregate
  net_interface:
    aggregate:
      - name: eth1
      - name: eth2
    enabled: False

- name: Delete interface using aggregate
  net_interface:
    aggregate:
      - name: eth1
      - name: eth2
    state: absent

- name: Check lldp neighbors intent arguments
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth0
    neighbors:
    - port: eth0
      host: netdev

- name: Config + intent
  vyos_interface:
    name: eth1
    enabled: False
    state: down

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
commands list	always, except for the platforms that use Netconf transport to manage the device.	The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device Sample: ['set interfaces ethernet eth0 description "test-interface"', 'set interfaces ethernet eth0 speed 100', 'set interfaces ethernet eth0 mtu 256', 'set interfaces ethernet eth0 duplex full']

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as network which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Network Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Network Team, see here.

Support ¶

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

Author ¶

Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)

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