community.general.gcdns_zone – Creates or removes zones in Google Cloud DNS

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

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

DEPRECATED

Removed in

version 2.0.0

Why

Updated modules released with increased functionality

Alternative

Use google.cloud.gcp_dns_managed_zone instead.

Synopsis

  • Creates or removes managed zones in Google Cloud DNS.

Requirements

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

  • apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
credentials_file
path
The path to the JSON file associated with the service account email.
description
string
Default:
""
An arbitrary text string to use for the zone description.
pem_file
path
The path to the PEM file associated with the service account email.
This option is deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Use credentials_file instead.
project_id
string
The Google Cloud Platform project ID to use.
service_account_email
string
The e-mail address for a service account with access to Google Cloud DNS.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the given zone should or should not be present.
zone
string / required
The DNS domain name of the zone.
This is NOT the Google Cloud DNS zone ID (e.g., example-com). If you attempt to specify a zone ID, this module will attempt to create a TLD and will fail.

aliases: name

Notes

Note

Examples

# Basic zone creation example.
- name: Create a basic zone with the minimum number of parameters.
  community.general.gcdns_zone: zone=example.com

# Zone removal example.
- name: Remove a zone.
  community.general.gcdns_zone: zone=example.com state=absent

# Zone creation with description
- name: Creating a zone with a description
  community.general.gcdns_zone: zone=example.com description="This is an awesome zone"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
description
string
success
The zone's description

Sample:
This is an awesome zone
state
string
success
Whether the zone is present or absent

Sample:
present
zone
string
success
The zone's DNS name

Sample:
example.com.


Status

  • This module will be removed in version 2.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • William Albert (@walbert947)