Allow Create Static IP NIC Without Need to Specify an Address

SUMMARY

Hi guys. In our Azure environment, we create the network interface cards with static address. We don't care to what will be the address, but once it's defined, we don't want it changes. I believe that others companies maybe adopts the same practice, so would be very usefull if we could create a network interface card (using azure_rm_networkinterface module), setting the allocation method as "Static", without need to inform an IP address. I appreciate any effort in this way.

ISSUE TYPE

Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

azure.azcollection.azure_rm_networkinterface

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This code block below is unable to create a NIC (it raises an error, requiring to inform the IP address), but it would be great if it works.

  - name: Creating NIC with static allocation method without specify address
    azure.azcollection.azure_rm_networkinterface:
      resource_group: rg-ansible
      virtual_network:
        name: vnet-ansible
        resource_group: rg-ansible
      subnet_name: sn-main
      name: vm-hostname-nic1
      create_with_security_group: False
      ip_configurations:
      - name: ipconfig1
        private_ip_allocation_method: Static
        primary: True

Today, to create a NIC in our automation scripts, we need to do some checks, using a much more complex code like this:

  - name: Checking if the NIC already exists
    azure_rm_networkinterface_info:
      resource_group: rg-ansible
      name: vm-hostname-nic1
    register: inet
    check_mode: no

  - name: Storing the IP address, when NIC already exists
    set_fact: inet_ip="{{ inet.networkinterfaces[0].ip_configurations[0] }}"
    when: inet.networkinterfaces[0] is defined

  - name: Creating the NIC, when it not exists
    azure_rm_networkinterface:
      resource_group: rg-ansible
      virtual_network:
        name: vnet-ansible
        resource_group: rg-ansible
      subnet_name: sn-main
      name: vm-hostname-nic1
      create_with_security_group: False
      ip_configurations:
      - name: ipconfig1
        primary: True
    register: inet_new
    when: inet_ip.private_ip_address is not defined

  - name: Storing the IP address of newly created NIC
    set_fact: inet_ip="{{ inet_new.state.ip_configurations[0] }}"
    when: inet_new.state.ip_configurations[0] is defined

  - name: Changing address allocation method to static
    azure_rm_networkinterface:
      resource_group: rg-ansible
      virtual_network:
        name: vnet-ansible
        resource_group: rg-ansible
      subnet_name: sn-main
      name: vm-hostname-nic1
      create_with_security_group: False
      ip_configurations:
      - name: ipconfig1
        private_ip_allocation_method: Static
        private_ip_address: "{{ inet_ip.private_ip_address }}"
        primary: True
    when: inet_ip.private_ip_address is defined

ansible-collections / azure