OVH DynHost Ansible playbook

Playbook which automatise installation of cron job, which refresh OVH dynamic DNS service known as DynHost

Prerequisites

• domain bought on OVH
• configured DynHost entry in OVH DNS zone
• configured DynHost login and password access

Example

Content of inventory.yml file

all:
  hosts:
    raspberrypi-gate.local
  vars:
    dynhost_user: dynhostd
    dynhost_host: home.yourdomain.com
    dynhost_login: yourdomain.com-home
    dynhost_password: yourhomenewtorkpassword!123
    dynhost_log_dir: /var/log
    dynhost_cron_period_minutes: 10

Run Ansible

ansible-playbook dynhost.yml -u username -i inventory.yml

Check effects

cat /home/dynhostd/cronjob/update.dynhost.home.yourdomain.com.sh
cat /var/log/dynhostd.home.yourdomain.com.log

Possible improvements of this script

• handling multiple subdomains gently

Credits

Credits for the yjajkiew, creator of shell script used in this playbook