Ansible module to create & manage namespace in AKS

[sudheerkaramchand]

Currently I'm working on managing existing AKS cluster created through ansible playbook and now would like to create and manage the AKS cluster using playbooks. For eg creating pods, list pods, create namespace etc.

In ansible azure_rm_aks module there is no supported parameters given to create a pipeline to list pods or create namespace.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/azure/azcollection/azure_rm_aks_module.html

Kindly suggest how I overcome this issue.
`---

• hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: yes

  tasks:

  • name: Get facts for one Azure Kubernetes Service
    azure.azcollection.azure_rm_aks_info:
    name: myAKSCluster
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    `

[sudheerkaramchand]

@yuwzho @Fred-sun

[Fred-sun]

@sudheerkaramchand Could you explain your requirements in detail? This will help to resolve any issues you may encounter, and listing all clusters under resource groups or subscription_id is already supported in PR #1229. Thank you very much!

[sudheerkaramchand]

@Fred-sun Thank you for your response.
I'm working on Ansible currently and created a AKS cluster in Azure using Ansible playbook which is deployed successfully. Now the actual requirement is to manage the AKS cluster in Azure from local machine through playbooks. I'm able to connect to the AKS cluster from local machine and able to list pods and create namespace using the kubectl commands.

Now I want to do the same thing using Ansible playbooks to create namespace and list pods (this is part of testing) and noticed there is no supporting module for AKS where I can list pods or create namespace but can find the same in open source k8s module (link below)
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/kubernetes/core/k8s_module.html

To run a playbook to list pods and create namespace, which module I can use here as Azure_rm_aks does not have kind and namespace parameter given in Ansible documentation (link below)
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/azure/azcollection/azure_rm_aks_module.html

[bigfleet]

Once you've created the cluster with the azure_rm_aks module, you begin to use the k8s modules with it. When I do this, I store the kubeconfig result from the azure_rm_aks module and pass that into the k8s module. Part of the promise of kubernetes is that after you have a cluster, they are all meant to run the same. You can start to use the kubernetes.core ones after that, as long as you manage which cluster you're interacting with successfully.

[sudheerkaramchand]

@bigfleet Thank you for your response. Could you please elaborate or provide any example on how I can store the kubeconfig result and passing to k8s module.

[bigfleet]

- name: Store kube/config in tempfile
  ansible.builtin.tempfile:
    state: file
  register: aks_kubeconfig_tmpfile

- name: "Create an {{ k8sconfig.cluster_name }} AKS instance"
  azure.azcollection.azure_rm_aks: "{{ _aks_module_params }}"
  register: azure_aks_cluster

- name: Place kubeconfig onto filesystem temporarily
  copy: 
    content: "{{ azure_aks_cluster.kube_config }}"
    dest: "{{ aks_kubeconfig_tmpfile.path }}"
    mode: '0600'
  when: azure_aks_cluster.skip_reason is not defined

- set_fact:
    kubeconfig: "{{ aks_kubeconfig_tmpfile.path }}"

- name: Get Cluster information
  kubernetes.core.k8s_info:
    kind: namespace
    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig }}"
  register: azure_aks_namespace_status
  retries: 6
  delay: 10
  until: azure_aks_namespace_status is not failed

[Fred-sun]

@bigfleet @sudheerkaramchand Added in #1497