infoblox_a_record Data Source
- Jyothi KP
Use the data source to retrieve the following information for an A record, which is managed by a NIOS server:
Parameter | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
dns_view | The DNS view in which the record's zone exists. | default |
ip_addr | The IPv4 address associated with the A record. | 17.10.0.8 |
fqdn | The fully qualified domain name which the IP address is assigned to. | blues.test.com |
| The zone that contains the record in the specified DNS view. | test.com |
| The Time to Live value of the record, in seconds. | 3600 |
| A description of the record. This is a regular comment. | Temporary A record |
| The set of extensible attributes of the record, if any. The content is formatted as a string of JSON map. | {\"TestEA\":56,\"TestEA1\":\"kickoff\"} |
To retrieve information about A records that match the specified filters, use the filters argument and specify the parameters mentioned in the below table. These are the searchable parameters of the corresponding object in Infoblox NIOS WAPI. If you do not specify any parameter, the data source retrieves information about all A records in the NIOS Grid.
The following table describes the parameters you can define in an infoblox_a_record data source block:
Parameter | Alias* | Description |
|---|---|---|
name |
| Specifies the fully qualified domain name to which the IP address is assigned. |
|
| Specifies the DNS view in which the record's zone exists. |
|
| Specifies the IPv4 address associated with the A record. |
| zone | Specifies the zone that contains the record. |
comment | comment | Describes the record. |
| Extensible Attributes | - | Specifies the extensible attributes specified for the record. You must specify the key/value pair within the filters argument.Example: filters = {"*Site" = "some test site""*Location" = "65.8665701230204, -37.00791763398113"} |
*Aliases are the parameter names used in the prior releases of Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for Terraform. Do not use the alias names for parameters in the data source blocks. Using them can result in error scenarios.
Example of the A Record Data Source Block
The following example defines a data source of type infoblox_a_record and the name "a_rec_temp", which is configured in a Terraform file. You can reference this resource and retrieve information about it.
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" "a_rec_temp" { filters = {
name = "very-interesting-host.example.com"
ipv4addr = "10.3.1.65" //alias is ip_addr
view = "nondefault_dnsview2"
}
// This is just to ensure that the record has been created // using 'infoblox_a_record' resource block before the data source will be queried. depends_on = [infoblox_a_record.vip_host]}
output "a_rec_res" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.a_rec_temp
}
// accessing individual field in results
output "a_rec_name" {
value = data.infoblox_a_record.a_rec_temp.results.0.fqdn //zero represents index of the json object from the results list
}
// fetching A-Records through EAs
data "infoblox_a_record" "a_rec_ea" { filters = {
"*Site" = "some test site"
"*Location" = "65.8665701230204, -37.00791763398113"
"*Location!" = "75.8665701230211" }
}
output "a_rec_out" { value = data.infoblox_a_record.a_rec_ea}