Netscaler - Ansible to bind/unbind content switching policies about ansible-collection-netscaleradc

[giorgos-nikolopoulos]

The way you would probably go about it is that you would have a playbook defining the cs vserver and its cs policy bindings like so

- name: Setup content switching vserver
  delegate_to: localhost
  citrix_adc_cs_vserver:
    nsip: 172.18.0.2
    nitro_user: nsroot
    nitro_pass: nsroot

    state: present

    name: cs_vserver_1
    ipv46: 192.168.1.1
    port: 80
    servicetype: HTTP

    policybindings:
      - policyname: regular_policy_1
        priority: 90
      - policyname: regular_policy_2
        priority: 100
      - policyname: regular_policy_3
        priority: 120

When you need to apply the maintenance page you would run to apply the following playbook

- name: Setup content switching vserver
  delegate_to: localhost
  citrix_adc_cs_vserver:
    nsip: 172.18.0.2
    nitro_user: nsroot
    nitro_pass: nsroot

    state: present

    name: cs_vserver_1
    ipv46: 192.168.1.1
    port: 80
    servicetype: HTTP

    policybindings:
      - policyname: regular_policy_1
        priority: 90
      - policyname: regular_policy_2
        priority: 100
      - policyname: maintenance_policy
        priority: 115
      - policyname: regular_policy_3
        priority: 120

The cs vserver module should take care of the deletion and addition of bindings.

You need to apply the whole configuration again for the cs vserver since ansible has no notion of applying a diff to an existing configuration.

[murilo-rocha]

Awesome. Thanks a lot Giorgos.
I will run a lab. It's a pretty complex setup and very critical with cache, rewrite, cs policies etc. so I will see how it goes on a lab.