Interact with the Infoblox WAPI with Ruby. Use this gem to list, create, and delete host records.
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'infoblox'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install infoblox
An instance of the Infoblox::Connection
class is necessary:
connection = Infoblox::Connection.new(username: '', password: '', host: '')
Each resource class implements all
and find
. You can use the _max_results
and _return_fields
parameters for both of these methods. See the Infoblox WAPI documentation on how to use these parameters.
# Find all networks. Note that this is limited to 1000 objects, as per the
# Infoblox WAPI documentation.
Infoblox::Network.all(connection)
# => [...]
# If you want more than 1,000 records, use `_max_results`:
Infoblox::Network.all(connection, _max_results: 7890)
# You can find hosts that match a regular expression:
Infoblox::Host.find(connection, {"name~" => "demo[0-9]{1,}-web.domain"})
# => [...]
The usage of search parameters is well-documented in the Infoblox WAPI documentation, and this client supports them fully.
You can also search across the Infoblox cluster using the Infoblox::Search
resource. The response will contain any number of Infoblox::Resource
subclass instances.
result = Infoblox::Search.find(connection, "search_string~" => "webserver-")
# => [#<Infoblox::Host>, #<Infoblox::Ptr>, ...]
The resource class instances implement get
, post
, put
, and delete
methods, which correspond to the REST verbs supported by the WAPI. For example, here is how to create, update, and delete a network:
# create
network = Infoblox::Network.new(connection: connection)
network.network = "10.20.30.0/24"
network.extensible_attributes = {"VLAN" => "my_vlan"}
network.auto_create_reversezone = true
network.post
# update
network.network = "10.20.31.0/24"
network.put
# delete
network.delete
This pattern applies for interacting with every resource. Supported resources include:
Infoblox::AAAArecord
Infoblox::Arecord
Infoblox::Cname
Infoblox::FixedAddress
Infoblox::Host
Infoblox::HostIpv4addr
Infoblox::Ipv4address
Infoblox::Mx
Infoblox::Network
Infoblox::NetworkContainer
Infoblox::Ptr
Infoblox::Range
Infoblox::Search
Infoblox::Srv
Infoblox::Txt
Infoblox::ZoneAuth
The specific attributes supported by each resource are listed in the source code. Adding a new resource class is easy, and pull requests are encouraged.
To change the IP of an existing host, you have to poke around in the ipv4addrs collection to find the one you are looking for. The example below assumes that there is only one ipv4 address and just overwrites it.
host = Infoblox::Host.find(connection, {"name~" => "my.host.name"}).first
host.ipv4addrs[0].ipv4addr = "10.10.10.10"
host.put
To do basic create/update/delete operations on an a_record/ptr_record set:
Create:
a_record = Infoblox::Arecord.new(
connection: connection,
name: <fqdn>,
ipv4addr: <ip_address>)
a_record.post
ptr_record = Infoblox::Ptr.new(
connection: connection,
ptrdname: <fqdn>,
ipv4addr: <ip_address>)
ptr_record.post
Update:
a_record = Infoblox::Arecord.find(connection, {
name: <fqdn>,
ipv4addr: <ip_address>
}).first
a_record.name = <fqdn>
a_record.ipv4addr = <ip_address>
a_record.view = nil
a_record.put
ptr_record = Infoblox::Ptr.find(connection, {
ptrdname: <fqdn>,
ipv4addr: <ip_address>
}).first
ptr_record.ptrdname = <fqdn>
ptr_record.ipv4addr = <ip_address>
ptr_record.view = nil
ptr_record.put
Delete:
a_record = Infoblox::Arecord.find(connection, {
name: <fqdn>,
ipv4addr: <ip_address>
}).first
a_record.delete
ptr_record = Infoblox::Ptr.find(connection, {
ptrdname: <fqdn>,
ipv4addr: <ip_address>
}).first
ptr_record.delete
The Infoblox::Network
and Infoblox::Range
objects support the next_available_ip
WAPI function:
network = Infoblox::Network.find(connection,
network: '10.21.0.0/24').first
puts network.next_available_ip.inspect
#=> ["10.21.0.22"]
Note that this function does not work on a resource that has not been created. In other words, if you want to get the next available IP for a given network segment, you have to create that segment beforehand. See the CRUD examples above.
This gem is known to be compatible with Infoblox versions 1.0 through 2.0. While Infoblox claims that their API is backwards-compatible, one caveat remains with the Extensible Attributes (see elsewhere in this document). Some features are only available in newer versions (such as FixedAddress and AAAARecord). To set your version, use the WAPI_VERSION
environment variable. For example:
WAPI_VERSION=2.0 ruby my_script.rb
Extensible attributes are supported in this client. It should be noted that in WAPI versions before 1.2, the field is named "extensible_attributes", whereas in version 1.2 and later, it is named "extattrs".
First, clone and bundle:
bundle install
To run the tests:
rspec
To run the integration tests (you will be prompted for your Infoblox credentials):
INTEGRATION=true rspec
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request