digital_ocean_snapshot_info – Gather information about DigitalOcean Snapshot

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to gather information about snapshot information based upon provided values such as droplet, volume and snapshot id.

  • This module was called digital_ocean_snapshot_facts before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Aliases: digital_ocean_snapshot_facts

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
oauth_token
string
DigitalOcean OAuth token.
There are several other environment variables which can be used to provide this value.
i.e., - 'DO_API_TOKEN', 'DO_API_KEY', 'DO_OAUTH_TOKEN' and 'OAUTH_TOKEN'

aliases: api_token
snapshot_id
-
To retrieve information about a snapshot, please specify this as a snapshot id.
If set to actual snapshot id, then information are gathered related to that particular snapshot only.
This is required parameter, if snapshot_type is set to by_id.
snapshot_type
-
    Choices:
  • all ←
  • droplet
  • volume
  • by_id
Specifies the type of snapshot information to be retrived.
If set to droplet, then information are gathered related to snapshots based on Droplets only.
If set to volume, then information are gathered related to snapshots based on volumes only.
If set to by_id, then information are gathered related to snapshots based on snapshot id only.
If not set to any of the above, then information are gathered related to all snapshots.
timeout
integer
Default:
30
The timeout in seconds used for polling DigitalOcean's API.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Gather information about all snapshots
  digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: all
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"

- name: Gather information about droplet snapshots
  digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: droplet
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"

- name: Gather information about volume snapshots
  digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: volume
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"

- name: Gather information about snapshot by snapshot id
  digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: by_id
    snapshot_id: 123123123
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"

- name: Get information about snapshot named big-data-snapshot1
  digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
  register: resp_out
- set_fact:
    snapshot_id: "{{ item.id }}"
  loop: "{{ resp_out.data|json_query(name) }}"
  vars:
    name: "[?name=='big-data-snapshot1']"
- debug: var=snapshot_id

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
data
list
success
DigitalOcean snapshot information

Sample:
[{'id': '4f60fc64-85d1-11e6-a004-000f53315871', 'name': 'big-data-snapshot1', 'regions': ['nyc1'], 'created_at': '2016-09-28T23:14:30Z', 'resource_id': '89bcc42f-85cf-11e6-a004-000f53315871', 'resource_type': 'volume', 'min_disk_size': 10, 'size_gigabytes': 0}]


Status

Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)

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