Authentication
To authenticate the API call against the Hetzner Cloud API when
using the hetzner.hcloud collection, you can provide the API token by different means:
You can pass the API token using an environment variable (recommended):
export HCLOUD_TOKEN='LRK9DAWQ1ZAEFSrCNEEzLCUwhYX1U3g7wMg4dTlkkDC96fyDuyJ39nVbVjCKSDfj'
# Verify that your token is working
ansible -m hetzner.hcloud.location_info localhost
Alternatively, you may provide the API token directly as module argument:
- name: Create server
hetzner.hcloud.server:
api_token: LRK9DAWQ1ZAEFSrCNEEzLCUwhYX1U3g7wMg4dTlkkDC96fyDuyJ39nVbVjCKSDfj
name: my-server
server_type: cx22
image: debian-12
state: present
To reduce the duplication of the above solution, you may configure the
hetzner.hcloud.* modules using the hetzner.hcloud.all action group, for
example if you want to store your API token in a vault:
- name: Demonstrate the usage of the 'hetzner.hcloud.all' module_defaults group
hosts: localhost
connection: local
module_defaults:
group/hetzner.hcloud.all:
api_token: "{{ _vault_hcloud_api_token }}"
tasks:
- name: Create server
hetzner.hcloud.server:
name: my-server
server_type: cx22
image: debian-12
state: present