azure_rm_loadbalancer doesn't append rules, it overwrites about azure

[Fred-sun]

@rnsc Glad you raised this question, we will investigate and check this feature. Thank you!

[hdiass]

hello,
i'm afraid we need this feature to feed a list into the probes with "with_items" option. If not, how can we use a list to create multiple load_balancing_rules ?

Thanks

[Fred-sun]

hello,
i'm afraid we need this feature to feed a list into the probes with "with_items" option. If not, how can we use a list to create multiple load_balancing_rules ?

Thanks

We are investigating this feature and will make improvements as soon as possible!

[tfmark]

Is anyone looking into this issue? The other Azure Ansible modules I've used are additive and only upsert data if the key (e.g. name) is the same (for example the NSG rules)...

That said, the following playbook works around the issue by creating the list of loadbalancer rules first (via set_fact + loop) and then feeds this into azure_rm_loadbalancer. @hdiass I guess you found your own workaround, but for others:

---
- name: Load Balancer Example 
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    clients:
    - name: client1
      number: 10
    - name: client2
      number: 20
    - name: client3
      number: 30

  tasks:
    # workaround dumb module behaviour
  - set_fact:
      load_balancing_rules: "{{ load_balancing_rules | default([]) + [load_balancing_rule] }}"
    loop: "{{ clients }}"
    loop_control:
      label: "{{ item.name }} ({{ item.number }})"
    vars:
      load_balancing_rule:
        name: "{{ item.name }}"
        backend_port: "{{ 20000 + (item.number * 10) | int}}"
        protocol: Tcp
        frontend_port: "{{ 10000 + (item.number * 10) | int}}"
        frontend_ip_configuration: "my-frontend-ip"
        backend_address_pool : "my-backend-address-pool"
        probe: my-health-probe
        # disable_outbound_snat: true  

  - debug: var=load_balancing_rules

  - name: Add Load Balancer rules
    azure.azcollection.azure_rm_loadbalancer:
      profile: prod
      resource_group: load-balancer-rg
      name: dummy-load-balancer
      load_balancing_rules: "{{ load_balancing_rules }}"