gce_snapshot – Create or destroy snapshots for GCE storage volumes

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Manages snapshots for GCE instances. This module manages snapshots for the storage volumes of a GCE compute instance. If there are multiple volumes, each snapshot will be prepended with the disk name

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
credentials_file
- / required
The path to the credentials file associated with the service account
disks
-
Default:
"all"
A list of disks to create snapshots for. If none is provided, all of the volumes will be snapshotted
instance_name
- / required
The GCE instance to snapshot
project_id
- / required
The GCP project ID to use
service_account_email
- / required
GCP service account email for the project where the instance resides
snapshot_name
-
The name of the snapshot to manage
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether a snapshot should be present or absent

Examples

- name: Create gce snapshot
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: present
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete gce snapshot
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: absent
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

# This example creates snapshots for only two of the available disks as
# disk0-example-snapshot and disk1-example-snapshot
- name: Create snapshots of specific disks
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: present
    disks:
      - disk0
      - disk1
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
snapshots_absent
list
 When snapshots were already absent
List of snapshots that were already absent (no-op)

Sample:
[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]
snapshots_created
list
 When snapshots are created
List of newly created snapshots

Sample:
[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]
snapshots_deleted
list
 When snapshots are deleted
List of destroyed snapshots

Sample:
[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]
snapshots_existing
list
 When snapshots were already present
List of snapshots that already existed (no-op)

Sample:
[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]


Status

Authors

  • Rob Wagner (@robwagner33)

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