gce_img – utilize GCE image resources

Synopsis

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
-
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
-
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

Authors

  • Tom Melendez (@supertom)

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