How set static route in RHEL 8 with Ansible?

Question

I have a requirement to maintain a list of static routes across many RHEL 8 VMs (~100) and thinking of managing this with Ansible.

Tried several methods suggested for different scenarios and still no luck.

Some options I tried were,

In my case, I dont want to disturb any network interface which are actively being used.

Just want to add a static route to send the traffic via a different interface, not through default route.

Command I use to do this manually is like,

#sudo ip route add 192.168.1.2 via 192.168.100.1 dev ens224 proto static metric 100

Anyone has done something like this?

user_6771046 · Answer

In RHEL 8 you can use the nmcli command to configure a static route. For this the Ansible nmcli_module is available and with which you can configure the interfaces.