Ansible script to create new kafka connector - ansible

Question

I have been creating different connectors in our confluent installation by using the curl command to PUT a configuration to a url. The set-up is normally done by adding the configuration and curl call in a shell script. We either write separate shell scripts for each environment or pass the server names - broker and connect - as parameters.
I want to write an ansible script to define new connectors which will basically be same script that can be run in all environments and will only depend on the hosts file in each environment. This will help in eliminating user error / typos in server names when running it in different environments.
My current plan is to just convert the shell script and use ansible shell or command module to call 'curl' and pass the parameters. But I am not sure, if that is the correct way, even if it may get the job done.
Does anyone have any suggestion to do it correctly / properly.
Thank you
UPDATE
Based on #Zeitounator's recommendation, I tried to use the uri module. But keep on getting error
---
- name: Create Kafka Connector
hosts: kafka_connect
vars:
connect_url: https://{{ kafka_connect[0] }}:8083
connector_name: CamelTestConnector
cert_path: /tmp/test/
tasks:
- name: prepare connector config
template:
src: camelconnector.json
dest: /tmp/camelconnector.json
delegate_to: localhost
run_once: yes
- name: Create Connector
uri:
url: "https://kafka-connect1-dev:8083/connectors/{{ connector_name }}/config"
client_cert: "{{ cert_path }}certificate.pem"
client_key: "{{ cert_path }}priv.key"
method: PUT
body: "{{ lookup('file', '/tmp/camelconnector.json' ) }}"
body_format: json
validate_certs: no
status_code: [201, 201, 204]
headers:
Content-Type: application/json
# If you're interested in the response
return_content: yes
register: api_result
run_once: yes
- debug:
var=api_result
#curl --cert /software/scripts/clientcerts/certificate.pem --key /software/scripts/clientcerts/priv.key -k -X PUT -H "${HEADER}" --data "${DATA}" https://"${1}":8083/connectors/CamelTestConnector/config
#curl --cert /software/scripts/clientcerts/certificate.pem --key /software/scripts/clientcerts/priv.key -k https://"${1}":8083/connectors/CamelTestConnector/status
This is the error I keep getting
TASK [Create Connector] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
fatal: [kafka-connect1-dev]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "content": "", "elapsed": 0, "msg": "Status code was -1 and not [201, 201, 204]: An unknown error occurred: [Errno 2] No such file or directory", "redirected": false, "status": -1, "url": "https://kafka-connect1-dev/connectors/"}
I have verified that the json file is present. I am unable to identify which file it is complaining about. Tried various iterations for connect-url, but all give the same error.
How do I identify which file it is complaining about?
Thanks
UPDATE 2
I ran the script in verbose mode and I get below stack trace. If I comment out the cert and key parts, then I get connection refused, so it seems the cert and key are required. I tried to search for the cause of the error without success. The certificate and key files do exist at the location. What else do I need to check?
The full traceback is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_6FB8tM/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 1494, in fetch_url
unix_socket=unix_socket, ca_path=ca_path)
File "/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_6FB8tM/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 1390, in open_url
unredirected_headers=unredirected_headers)
File "/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_6FB8tM/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 1294, in open
r = urllib_request.urlopen(*urlopen_args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 431, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 449, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_6FB8tM/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 467, in https_open
return self.do_open(self._build_https_connection, req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1183, in do_open
h = http_class(host, timeout=req.timeout, **http_conn_args)
File "/tmp/ansible_uri_payload_6FB8tM/ansible_uri_payload.zip/ansible/module_utils/urls.py", line 480, in _build_https_connection
return httplib.HTTPSConnection(host, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1259, in __init__
context.load_cert_chain(cert_file, key_file)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory