dericcrago / frr.frr

Ansible Collection for Free Range Routing (FRR)

Free Range Routing (FRR) Collection

The Ansible FRR collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of FRR network appliances.

This collection has been tested against FRR 6.0.

Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >=2.9.10,<2.11.

Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

Supported connections

The FRR collection supports network_cli connections.

Included content

Cliconf plugins

Name	Description
frr.frr.frr	Use frr cliconf to run command on Free Range Routing platform

Modules

Name	Description
frr.frr.frr_bgp	Configure global BGP settings on Free Range Routing(FRR).
frr.frr.frr_facts	Collect facts from remote devices running Free Range Routing (FRR).

Click the Content button to see the list of content included in this collection.

Installing this collection

You can install the FRR collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install frr.frr

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: frr.frr

Using this collection

You can call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as frr.frr.frr_bgp. The following example task replaces configuration changes in the existing configuration on a FRR network device, using the FQCN:

---
  - name: configure global bgp as 64496
    frr.frr.frr_bgp:
      config:
        bgp_as: 64496
        router_id: 192.0.2.1
        log_neighbor_changes: True
        neighbors:
          - neighbor: 192.51.100.1
            remote_as: 64497
            timers:
              keepalive: 120
              holdtime: 360
          - neighbor: 198.51.100.2
            remote_as: 64498
        networks:
          - prefix: 192.0.2.0
            masklen: 24
            route_map: RMAP_1
          - prefix: 198.51.100.0
            masklen: 24
        address_family:
          - afi: ipv4
            safi: unicast
            redistribute:
              - protocol: ospf
                id: 223
                metric: 10
      operation: merge

NOTE: For Ansible 2.9, you may not see deprecation warnings when you run your playbooks with this collection. Use this documentation to track when a module is deprecated.

See Also:

• FRR Platform Options
• Ansible Using collections for more details.

Contributing to this collection

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the FRR collection repository. See Contributing to Ansible-maintained collections for complete details.

You can also join us on:

• IRC - the #ansible-network irc.libera.chat channel
• Slack - https://ansiblenetwork.slack.com

See the Ansible Community Guide for details on contributing to Ansible.

Code of Conduct

This collection follows the Ansible project's Code of Conduct. Please read and familiarize yourself with this document.

Changelogs

Release notes are available here.

Roadmap

More information

• Ansible network resources
• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Community code of conduct

Licensing

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See LICENSE to see the full text.