# route53_health_check – add or delete health-checks in Amazons Route53 DNS service

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Status

## Synopsis

- Creates and deletes DNS Health checks in Amazons Route53 service

- Only the port, resource_path, string_match and request_interval are considered when updating existing health-checks.

## Requirements

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

- python >= 2.6

- boto

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
aws_access_key string |  | 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 string |  | 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

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs
boolean
added in 2.8

Choices:
- no ←
- yes

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook. The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

ec2_url string |  | 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.

failure_threshold
- / required

Choices:
- 1
- 2
- 3 ←
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10

The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail for Amazon Route 53 to change the current status of the endpoint from unhealthy to healthy or vice versa.

fqdn - |  | Domain name of the endpoint to check. Either this or `ip_address` has to be provided. When both are given the `fqdn` is used in the `Host:` header of the HTTP request.
ip_address - |  | IP address of the end-point to check. Either this or `fqdn` has to be provided.
port - |  | The port on the endpoint on which you want Amazon Route 53 to perform health checks. Required for TCP checks.
profile string |  | Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region string |  | 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

request_interval
- / required

Choices:
- 10
- 30 ←

The number of seconds between the time that Amazon Route 53 gets a response from your endpoint and the time that it sends the next health-check request.

resource_path - |  | The path that you want Amazon Route 53 to request when performing health checks. The path can be any value for which your endpoint will return an HTTP status code of 2xx or 3xx when the endpoint is healthy, for example the file /docs/route53-health-check.html. Required for all checks except TCP. The path must begin with a / Maximum 255 characters.
security_token string |  | 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
- / required

Choices:
- present
- absent

Specifies the action to take.

string_match - |  | If the check type is HTTP_STR_MATCH or HTTP_STR_MATCH, the string that you want Amazon Route 53 to search for in the response body from the specified resource. If the string appears in the first 5120 bytes of the response body, Amazon Route 53 considers the resource healthy.

type
- / required

Choices:
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- HTTP_STR_MATCH
- HTTPS_STR_MATCH
- TCP

The type of health check that you want to create, which indicates how Amazon Route 53 determines whether an endpoint is healthy.

validate_certs
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

## Notes

Note

- 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 https://boto.readthedocs.io/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

    # Create a health-check for host1.example.com and use it in record
    - route53_health_check:
        state: present
        fqdn: host1.example.com
        type: HTTP_STR_MATCH
        resource_path: /
        string_match: "Hello"
        request_interval: 10
        failure_threshold: 2
      register: my_health_check

    - route53:
        action: create
        zone: "example.com"
        type: CNAME
        record: "www.example.com"
        value: host1.example.com
        ttl: 30
        # Routing policy
        identifier: "host1@www"
        weight: 100
        health_check: "{{ my_health_check.health_check.id }}"

    # Delete health-check
    - route53_health_check:
        state: absent
        fqdn: host1.example.com

## Status

- This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- zimbatm (@zimbatm)

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