skupper.network.links_load module – Loads existing links to other sites

Note

This module is part of the skupper.network collection (version 1.1.0).

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install skupper.network. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: skupper.network.links_load.

New in skupper.network 1.1.0

Synopsis

• Loads existing Skupper links to other sites, using the same format expected for links, referring other ansible hosts. The mapping of existing links to ansible hosts defined in the inventory file, depends on previous execution of site_load module, which loads site ids for each site defined in the inventory. Without it, links will be considered as unmapped and might be removed if links module is invoked.

Note

This module has a corresponding action plugin.

Requirements

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

• kubectl if using kubernetes platform

• podman v4+ if using podman as the site platform

Examples

- name: Loading existing links
  skupper.network.links_load:

Return Values

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

Key	Description
existing_links dictionary	List of existing links mapped to the corresponding ansible inventory hostname Returned: always Sample: {"existing_links": [{"cost": 1, "host": "host-a", "name": "site-a"}, {"cost": 1, "host": "host-b", "name": "site-b"}]}

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