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Ansible - Determine if an IP address is valid in a Subnet using ansible.utils.ipaddr

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There are two similar but distinct "ipaddr" modules.

  • ansible.netcommon.ipaddr
  • ansible.utils.ipaddr

ansible.netcommon.ipaddr is being deprecated, so you should almost always use ansible.utils.ipaddr.

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: 
Use 'ansible.utils.ipaddr' module instead. 
This feature will be removed from ansible.netcommon in a release after 2024-01-01.

 

You may need to install the ansible.utils collections.

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.utils

 

ansible.utils.network_in_unable can be used to determine if an IP address is valid in a particular subnet. For example, in 10.0.0.0/24 the first available IP address is 10.0.0.1 and the last available IP address is 10.0.0.254. 

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: this will return "false" because 10.0.0.0 is NOT an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24
    debug:
      msg: "{{ '10.0.0.0/24' | ansible.utils.network_in_usable('10.0.0.0') }}"

  - name: this will return "true" because 10.0.0.1 is an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24
    debug:
      msg: "{{ '10.0.0.0/24' | ansible.utils.network_in_usable('10.0.0.1') }}"

  - name: this will return "true" because 10.0.0.254 is an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24
    debug:
      msg: "{{ '10.0.0.0/24' | ansible.utils.network_in_usable('10.0.0.254') }}"

  - name: this will return "false" because 10.0.0.255 NOT an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24
    debug:
      msg: "{{ '10.0.0.0/24' | ansible.utils.network_in_usable('10.0.0.255') }}"
...

 

Running this playbook should return the following.

TASK [this will return "false" because 10.0.0.0 is NOT an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24] 
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": false
}

TASK [this will return "true" because 10.0.0.1 is an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24] 
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": true
}

TASK [this will return "true" because 10.0.0.254 is an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24] 
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": true
}

TASK [this will return "false" because 10.0.0.255 NOT an available IP address in 10.0.0.0/24] 
ok: [localhost] => {
    "msg": false
}

 




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