gcp_healthcheck – Create, Update or Destroy a Healthcheck¶

New in version 2.4.

DEPRECATED
Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status

DEPRECATED ¶

Removed in Ansible: version: 2.12
Why: Updated modules released with increased functionality
Alternative: Use gcp_compute_health_check, gcp_compute_http_health_check or gcp_compute_https_health_check instead.

Synopsis ¶

Create, Update or Destroy a Healthcheck. Currently only HTTP and HTTPS Healthchecks are supported. Healthchecks are used to monitor individual instances, managed instance groups and/or backend services. Healtchecks are reusable.
Visit https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/health-checks for an overview of Healthchecks on GCP.
See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/latest/httpHealthChecks for API details on HTTP Healthchecks.
See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/latest/httpsHealthChecks for more details on the HTTPS Healtcheck API.

Requirements ¶

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

python >= 2.6
google-api-python-client >= 1.6.2
google-auth >= 0.9.0
google-auth-httplib2 >= 0.0.2

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
check_interval -	Default: 5	How often (in seconds) to send a health check.
credentials_file -		Path to the JSON file associated with the service account email
healthcheck_name - / required		Name of the Healthcheck.
healthcheck_type - / required	Choices: HTTP HTTPS	Type of Healthcheck.
healthy_threshold -	Default: 2	A so-far unhealthy instance will be marked healthy after this many consecutive successes.
host_header - / required	Default: ""	The value of the host header in the health check request. If left empty, the public IP on behalf of which this health check is performed will be used.
port -		The TCP port number for the health check request. The default value is 443 for HTTPS and 80 for HTTP.
project_id -		Your GCP project ID
request_path -	Default: "/"	The request path of the HTTPS health check request.
service_account_email -		service account email
service_account_permissions - added in 2.0	Choices: bigquery cloud-platform compute-ro compute-rw useraccounts-ro useraccounts-rw datastore logging-write monitoring sql-admin storage-full storage-ro storage-rw taskqueue userinfo-email	service account permissions (see https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/instances/create, --scopes section for detailed information)
state - / required	Choices: present absent	State of the Healthcheck.
timeout -	Default: 5	How long (in seconds) to wait for a response before claiming failure. It is invalid for timeout to have a greater value than check_interval.
unhealthy_threshold -	Default: 2	A so-far healthy instance will be marked unhealthy after this many consecutive failures.

Notes ¶

Note

Only supports HTTP and HTTPS Healthchecks currently.

Examples ¶

- name: Create Minimum HealthCheck
  gcp_healthcheck:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    healthcheck_name: my-healthcheck
    healthcheck_type: HTTP
    state: present
- name: Create HTTP HealthCheck
  gcp_healthcheck:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    healthcheck_name: my-healthcheck
    healthcheck_type: HTTP
    host: my-host
    request_path: /hc
    check_interval: 10
    timeout: 30
    unhealthy_threshhold: 2
    healthy_threshhold: 1
    state: present
- name: Create HTTPS HealthCheck
  gcp_healthcheck:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    healthcheck_name: "{{ https_healthcheck }}"
    healthcheck_type: HTTPS
    host_header: my-host
    request_path: /hc
    check_interval: 5
    timeout: 5
    unhealthy_threshold: 2
    healthy_threshold: 1
    state: present

Return Values ¶

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

Key	Returned	Description
healthcheck dictionary	Always. Refer to GCP documentation for detailed field descriptions.	GCP Healthcheck dictionary Sample: {'name': 'my-hc', 'port': 443, 'requestPath': '/foo'}
healthcheck_name string	Always	Name of the Healthcheck Sample: my-url-map
healthcheck_type string	Always	Type of the Healthcheck Sample: HTTP
state string	Always.	state of the Healthcheck Sample: present

Status ¶

This module will be removed in version 2.12. [deprecated]
For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors¶

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

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