infoblox_a_record Data Source

Use the data source to retrieve the following information for an A record, which is managed by a NIOS server:

Parameter	Description	Example
`zone`	The zone that contains the record in the specified DNS view.	`test.com`
`ttl`	The Time to Live value of the record, in seconds.	`3600`
`comment`	A description of the record. This is a regular comment.	`Temporary A record`
`ext_attrs`	The set of extensible attributes of the record, if any. The content is formatted as a JSON map.	`{"Owner": "State Library", "Expires": "never"}`

To get information about an A record, specify a combination of the IPv4 address that the record points to and the FQDN that corresponds to the IP address.

The following table describes the parameters you can define in an infoblox_a_record data source block:

Parameter	Required/Optional	Description
`dns_view`	Optional	Specifies the DNS view in which the record's zone exists. If a value is not specified, `default` will be used as the DNS view name. If the zone is in a non-default DNS view, then you must specify that view.
`ip_addr`	Required	Specifies the IPv4 address associated with the A record.
`fqdn`	Required	Specifies the fully qualified domain name to which the IP address is assigned.

Example of the A Record Data Source Block

The following example defines a data source of type infoblox_a_record and the name "vip_host", which is configured in a Terraform file. You can reference this resource and retrieve information about it. For example, data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.comment returns the text entered as a comment for the A record.

resource "infoblox_a_record" "vip_host" { fqdn = "very-interesting-host.example.com" ip_addr = "10.3.1.65" comment = "special host" dns_view = "nondefault_dnsview2" ttl = 120 // 120s ext_attrs = jsonencode({ "Location" = "65.8665701230204, -37.00791763398113" }) }

data "infoblox_a_record" "vip_host" {
dns_view="nondefault_dnsview2"
fqdn="very-interesting-host.example.com"
ip_addr="10.3.1.65" // This is just to ensure that the record has been be created
// using 'infoblox_a_record' resource block before the data source will be queried.
depends_on = [infoblox_a_record.vip_host]
}

output "vip_host_id" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.id }

output "vip_host_zone" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.zone }

output "vip_host_ttl" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.ttl }

output "vip_host_comment" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.comment }

output "vip_host_ext_attrs" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.vip_host.ext_attrs }