gce_eip – Create or Destroy Global or Regional External IP addresses.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

• Create (reserve) or Destroy (release) Regional or Global IP Addresses. See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/configure-instance-ip-addresses#reserve_new_static for more on reserving static addresses.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name - / required		Name of Address.
region - / required		Region to create the address in. Set to 'global' to create a global address.
state -	Choices: present ← absent	The state the address should be in. present or absent are the only valid options.

Notes

Note

• Global addresses can only be used with Global Forwarding Rules.

Examples

# Create a Global external IP address
- gce_eip:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    name: my-global-ip
    region: global
    state: present

# Create a Regional external IP address
- gce_eip:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    name: my-global-ip
    region: us-east1
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
address string	always	IP address being operated on Sample: 35.186.222.233
name string	always	name of the address being operated on Sample: my-address
region string	always	Which region an address belongs. Sample: global

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Tom Melendez (@supertom) <tom@supertom.com>

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