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community.general.clc_server_snapshot module – Create, Delete and Restore server snapshots in CenturyLink Cloud

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.2).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.clc_server_snapshot.

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Synopsis

  • An Ansible module to Create, Delete and Restore server snapshots in CenturyLink Cloud.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python = 2.7

  • requests >= 2.5.0

  • clc-sdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

expiration_days

integer

The number of days to keep the server snapshot before it expires.

Default: 7

server_ids

list / elements=string / required

The list of CLC server Ids.

state

string

The state to insure that the provided resources are in.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

  • "restore"

wait

string

Whether to wait for the provisioning tasks to finish before returning.

Default: "True"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud

  • Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud

  • Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples

# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples

- name: Create server snapshot
  community.general.clc_server_snapshot:
    server_ids:
        - UC1TEST-SVR01
        - UC1TEST-SVR02
    expiration_days: 10
    wait: true
    state: present

- name: Restore server snapshot
  community.general.clc_server_snapshot:
    server_ids:
        - UC1TEST-SVR01
        - UC1TEST-SVR02
    wait: true
    state: restore

- name: Delete server snapshot
  community.general.clc_server_snapshot:
    server_ids:
        - UC1TEST-SVR01
        - UC1TEST-SVR02
    wait: true
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

server_ids

list / elements=string

The list of server ids that are changed

Returned: success

Sample: ["UC1TEST-SVR01", "UC1TEST-SVR02"]

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