community.general.one_vm module – Creates or terminates OpenNebula instances

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

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.one_vm.

Synopsis

• Manages OpenNebula instances

Requirements

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

• pyone

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_password string	Password of the user to login into OpenNebula RPC server. If not set then the value of the ONE_PASSWORD environment variable is used. if both api_username or api_password are not set, then it will try authenticate with ONE auth file. Default path is “~/.one/one_auth”. Set environment variable ONE_AUTH to override this path.
api_url string	URL of the OpenNebula RPC server. It is recommended to use HTTPS so that the username/password are not transferred over the network unencrypted. If not set then the value of the ONE_URL environment variable is used.
api_username string	Name of the user to login into the OpenNebula RPC server. If not set then the value of the ONE_USERNAME environment variable is used.
attributes dictionary	A dictionary of key/value attributes to add to new instances, or for setting state of instances with these attributes. Keys are case insensitive and OpenNebula automatically converts them to upper case. Be aware NAME is a special attribute which sets the name of the VM when it’s deployed. # character(s) can be appended to the NAME and the module will automatically add indexes to the names of VMs. For example’:’ NAME':' foo-### would create VMs with names foo-000, foo-001,… When used with count_attributes and exact_count the module will match the base name without the index part. Default: {}
count integer	Number of instances to launch Default: 1
count_attributes dictionary	A dictionary of key/value attributes that can only be used with exact_count to determine how many nodes based on a specific attributes criteria should be deployed. This can be expressed in multiple ways and is shown in the EXAMPLES section.
count_labels list / elements=string	A list of labels that can only be used with exact_count to determine how many nodes based on a specific labels criteria should be deployed. This can be expressed in multiple ways and is shown in the EXAMPLES section.
cpu float	Percentage of CPU divided by 100 required for the new instance. Half a processor is written 0.5.
datastore_id integer added in community.general 0.2.0	Name of Datastore to use to create a new instance
datastore_name string added in community.general 0.2.0	Name of Datastore to use to create a new instance
disk_saveas dictionary	Creates an image from a VM disk. It is a dictionary where you have to specify name of the new image. Optionally you can specify disk_id of the disk you want to save. By default disk_id is 0. NOTE: This operation will only be performed on the first VM (if more than one VM ID is passed) and the VM has to be in the poweredoff state. Also this operation will fail if an image with specified name already exists.
disk_size list / elements=string	The size of the disk created for new instances (in MB, GB, TB,…). NOTE: If The Template hats Multiple Disks the Order of the Sizes is matched against the order specified in template_id/template_name.
exact_count integer	Indicates how many instances that match count_attributes and count_labels parameters should be deployed. Instances are either created or terminated based on this value. NOTE: Instances with the least IDs will be terminated first.
group_id integer	ID of the group which will be set as the group of the instance
hard boolean	Reboot, power-off or terminate instances hard. Choices: false ← (default) true
instance_ids aliases: ids list / elements=integer	A list of instance ids used for states: absent, running, rebooted, poweredoff.
labels list / elements=string	A list of labels to associate with new instances, or for setting state of instances with these labels. Default: []
memory string	The size of the memory for new instances (in MB, GB, …)
mode string	Set permission mode of the instance in octet format, for example 0600 to give owner use and manage and nothing to group and others.
networks list / elements=dictionary	A list of dictionaries with network parameters. See examples for more details. Default: []
owner_id integer	ID of the user which will be set as the owner of the instance
persistent boolean added in community.general 0.2.0	Create a private persistent copy of the template plus any image defined in DISK, and instantiate that copy. Choices: false ← (default) true
state string	present - create instances from a template specified with template_id/template_name. running - run instances poweredoff - power-off instances rebooted - reboot instances absent - terminate instances Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent" "running" "rebooted" "poweredoff"
template_id integer	ID of a VM template to use to create a new instance
template_name string	Name of VM template to use to create a new instance
updateconf dictionary added in community.general 6.3.0	When instance_ids is provided, updates running VMs with the updateconf API call. When new VMs are being created, emulates the updateconf API call via direct template merge. Allows for complete modifications of the CONTEXT attribute.
vcpu integer	Number of CPUs (cores) new VM will have.
vm_start_on_hold boolean	Set to true to put vm on hold while creating Choices: false ← (default) true
wait boolean	Wait for the instance to reach its desired state before returning. Keep in mind if you are waiting for instance to be in running state it doesn’t mean that you will be able to SSH on that machine only that boot process have started on that instance, see ‘wait_for’ example for details. Choices: false true ← (default)
wait_timeout integer	How long before wait gives up, in seconds Default: 300

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.

Examples

- name: Create a new instance
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 90
  register: result

- name: Print VM properties
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: result

- name: Deploy a new VM on hold
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_name: 'app1_template'
    vm_start_on_hold: 'True'

- name: Deploy a new VM and set its name to 'foo'
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_name: 'app1_template'
    attributes:
      name: foo

- name: Deploy a new VM and set its group_id and mode
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 90
    group_id: 16
    mode: 660

- name: Deploy a new VM  as persistent
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 90
    persistent: true

- name: Change VM's permissions to 640
  community.general.one_vm:
    instance_ids: 5
    mode: 640

- name: Deploy 2 new instances and set memory, vcpu, disk_size and 3 networks
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 15
    disk_size: 35.2 GB
    memory: 4 GB
    vcpu: 4
    count: 2
    networks:
      - NETWORK_ID: 27
      - NETWORK: "default-network"
        NETWORK_UNAME: "app-user"
        SECURITY_GROUPS: "120,124"
      - NETWORK_ID: 27
        SECURITY_GROUPS: "10"

- name: Deploy a new instance which uses a Template with two Disks
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 42
    disk_size:
      - 35.2 GB
      - 50 GB
    memory: 4 GB
    vcpu: 4
    count: 1
    networks:
      - NETWORK_ID: 27

- name: "Deploy an new instance with attribute 'bar: bar1' and set its name to 'foo'"
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    attributes:
      name: foo
      bar: bar1

- name: "Enforce that 2 instances with attributes 'foo1: app1' and 'foo2: app2' are deployed"
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    attributes:
      foo1: app1
      foo2: app2
    exact_count: 2
    count_attributes:
      foo1: app1
      foo2: app2

- name: Enforce that 4 instances with an attribute 'bar' are deployed
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    attributes:
      name: app
      bar: bar2
    exact_count: 4
    count_attributes:
      bar:

# Deploy 2 new instances with attribute 'foo: bar' and labels 'app1' and 'app2' and names in format 'fooapp-##'
# Names will be: fooapp-00 and fooapp-01
- name: Deploy 2 new instances
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    attributes:
      name: fooapp-##
      foo: bar
    labels:
      - app1
      - app2
    count: 2

# Deploy 2 new instances with attribute 'app: app1' and names in format 'fooapp-###'
# Names will be: fooapp-002 and fooapp-003
- name: Deploy 2 new instances
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    attributes:
      name: fooapp-###
      app: app1
    count: 2

# Reboot all instances with name in format 'fooapp-#'
# Instances 'fooapp-00', 'fooapp-01', 'fooapp-002' and 'fooapp-003' will be rebooted
- name: Reboot all instances with names in a certain format
  community.general.one_vm:
    attributes:
      name: fooapp-#
    state: rebooted

# Enforce that only 1 instance with name in format 'fooapp-#' is deployed
# The task will delete oldest instances, so only the 'fooapp-003' will remain
- name: Enforce that only 1 instance with name in a certain format is deployed
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    exact_count: 1
    count_attributes:
      name: fooapp-#

- name: Deploy an new instance with a network
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    networks:
      - NETWORK_ID: 27
  register: vm

- name: Wait for SSH to come up
  ansible.builtin.wait_for_connection:
  delegate_to: '{{ vm.instances[0].networks[0].ip }}'

- name: Terminate VMs by ids
  community.general.one_vm:
    instance_ids:
      - 153
      - 160
    state: absent

- name: Reboot all VMs that have labels 'foo' and 'app1'
  community.general.one_vm:
    labels:
      - foo
      - app1
    state: rebooted

- name: "Fetch all VMs that have name 'foo' and attribute 'app: bar'"
  community.general.one_vm:
    attributes:
      name: foo
      app: bar
  register: results

- name: Deploy 2 new instances with labels 'foo1' and 'foo2'
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_name: app_template
    labels:
      - foo1
      - foo2
    count: 2

- name: Enforce that only 1 instance with label 'foo1' will be running
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_name: app_template
    labels:
      - foo1
    exact_count: 1
    count_labels:
      - foo1

- name: Terminate all instances that have attribute foo
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_id: 53
    exact_count: 0
    count_attributes:
      foo:

- name: "Power-off the VM and save VM's disk with id=0 to the image with name 'foo-image'"
  community.general.one_vm:
    instance_ids: 351
    state: poweredoff
    disk_saveas:
      name: foo-image

- name: "Save VM's disk with id=1 to the image with name 'bar-image'"
  community.general.one_vm:
    instance_ids: 351
    disk_saveas:
      name: bar-image
      disk_id: 1

- name: "Deploy 2 new instances with a custom 'start script'"
  community.general.one_vm:
    template_name: app_template
    count: 2
    updateconf:
      CONTEXT:
        START_SCRIPT: ip r r 169.254.16.86/32 dev eth0

- name: "Add a custom 'start script' to a running VM"
  community.general.one_vm:
    instance_ids: 351
    updateconf:
      CONTEXT:
        START_SCRIPT: ip r r 169.254.16.86/32 dev eth0

- name: "Update SSH public keys inside the VM's context"
  community.general.one_vm:
    instance_ids: 351
    updateconf:
      CONTEXT:
        SSH_PUBLIC_KEY: |-
          ssh-rsa ...
          ssh-ed25519 ...

Return Values

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

Key	Description
instances complex	a list of instances info whose state is changed or which are fetched with instance_ids option. Returned: success
attributes dictionary	A dictionary of key/values attributes that are associated with the instance Returned: success Sample: {"HYPERVISOR": "kvm", "LOGO": "images/logos/centos.png", "TE_GALAXY": "bar", "USER_INPUTS": null}
cpu float	Percentage of CPU divided by 100 Returned: success Sample: 0.2
disk_size string	The size of the disk in MB Returned: success Sample: "20480 MB"
group_id integer	vm’s group id Returned: success Sample: 1
group_name string	vm’s group name Returned: success Sample: "one-users"
labels list / elements=string	A list of string labels that are associated with the instance Returned: success Sample: ["foo", "spec-label"]
lcm_state string	lcm state of an instance that is only relevant when the state is ACTIVE Returned: success Sample: "RUNNING"
memory string	The size of the memory in MB Returned: success Sample: "4096 MB"
mode string	vm’s mode Returned: success Sample: "660"
networks list / elements=string	a list of dictionaries with info about IP, NAME, MAC, SECURITY_GROUPS for each NIC Returned: success Sample: [{"ip": "10.120.5.33", "mac": "02:00:0a:78:05:21", "name": "default-test-private", "security_groups": "0,10"}, {"ip": "10.120.5.34", "mac": "02:00:0a:78:05:22", "name": "default-test-private", "security_groups": "0"}]
owner_id integer	vm’s owner id Returned: success Sample: 143
owner_name string	vm’s owner name Returned: success Sample: "app-user"
state string	state of an instance Returned: success Sample: "ACTIVE"
template_id integer	vm’s template id Returned: success Sample: 153
updateconf dictionary added in community.general 6.3.0	A dictionary of key/values attributes that are set with the updateconf API call. Returned: success Sample: {"CONTEXT": {"SSH_PUBLIC_KEY": "ssh-rsa ...\nssh-ed25519 ...", "START_SCRIPT": "ip r r 169.254.16.86/32 dev eth0"}, "OS": {"ARCH": "x86_64"}}
uptime_h integer	Uptime of the instance in hours Returned: success Sample: 35
vcpu integer	Number of CPUs (cores) Returned: success Sample: 2
vm_id integer	vm id Returned: success Sample: 153
vm_name string	vm name Returned: success Sample: "foo"
instances_ids list / elements=string	a list of instances ids whose state is changed or which are fetched with instance_ids option. Returned: success Sample: [1234, 1235]
tagged_instances complex	A list of instances info based on a specific attributes and/or labels that are specified with count_attributes and count_labels options. Returned: success
attributes dictionary	A dictionary of key/values attributes that are associated with the instance Returned: success Sample: {"HYPERVISOR": "kvm", "LOGO": "images/logos/centos.png", "TE_GALAXY": "bar", "USER_INPUTS": null}
cpu float	Percentage of CPU divided by 100 Returned: success Sample: 0.2
disk_size list / elements=string	The size of the disk in MB Returned: success Sample: ["20480 MB", "10240 MB"]
group_id integer	vm’s group id Returned: success Sample: 1
group_name string	vm’s group name Returned: success Sample: "one-users"
labels list / elements=string	A list of string labels that are associated with the instance Returned: success Sample: ["foo", "spec-label"]
lcm_state string	lcm state of an instance that is only relevant when the state is ACTIVE Returned: success Sample: "RUNNING"
memory string	The size of the memory in MB Returned: success Sample: "4096 MB"
mode string	vm’s mode Returned: success Sample: "660"
networks list / elements=string	a list of dictionaries with info about IP, NAME, MAC, SECURITY_GROUPS for each NIC Returned: success Sample: [{"ip": "10.120.5.33", "mac": "02:00:0a:78:05:21", "name": "default-test-private", "security_groups": "0,10"}, {"ip": "10.120.5.34", "mac": "02:00:0a:78:05:22", "name": "default-test-private", "security_groups": "0"}]
owner_id integer	vm’s user id Returned: success Sample: 143
owner_name string	vm’s user name Returned: success Sample: "app-user"
state string	state of an instance Returned: success Sample: "ACTIVE"
template_id integer	vm’s template id Returned: success Sample: 153
updateconf dictionary added in community.general 6.3.0	A dictionary of key/values attributes that are set with the updateconf API call Returned: success Sample: {"CONTEXT": {"SSH_PUBLIC_KEY": "ssh-rsa ...\nssh-ed25519 ...", "START_SCRIPT": "ip r r 169.254.16.86/32 dev eth0"}, "OS": {"ARCH": "x86_64"}}
uptime_h integer	Uptime of the instance in hours Returned: success Sample: 35
vcpu integer	Number of CPUs (cores) Returned: success Sample: 2
vm_id integer	vm id Returned: success Sample: 153
vm_name string	vm name Returned: success Sample: "foo"

Authors

• Milan Ilic (@ilicmilan)

• Jan Meerkamp (@meerkampdvv)

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