gce_img – utilize GCE image resources

Synopsis

• This module can create and delete GCE private images from gzipped compressed tarball containing raw disk data or from existing detached disks in any zone. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6

• apache-libcloud

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
description -		an optional description
family - added in 2.2		an optional family name
name - / required		the name of the image to create or delete
pem_file -		path to the pem file associated with the service account email
project_id -		your GCE project ID
service_account_email -		service account email
source -		the source disk or the Google Cloud Storage URI to create the image from
state -	Choices: present ← absent	desired state of the image
timeout - added in 2.0	Default: 180	timeout for the operation
zone -	Default: "us-central1-a"	the zone of the disk specified by source

Examples

# Create an image named test-image from the disk 'test-disk' in zone us-central1-a.
- gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: test-disk
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

# Create an image named test-image from a tarball in Google Cloud Storage.
- gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/path/to/image.tgz

# Alternatively use the gs scheme
- gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: gs://bucket/path/to/image.tgz

# Delete an image named test-image.
- gce_img:
    name: test-image
    state: absent

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)

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