gce_tag – add or remove tag(s) to/from GCE instances

Synopsis

• This module can add or remove tags https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/label-or-tag-resources#tags to/from GCE instances. Use ‘instance_pattern’ to update multiple instances in a specify zone.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6

• apache-libcloud >= 0.17.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
instance_name -		The name of the GCE instance to add/remove tags. Required if instance_pattern is not specified.
instance_pattern -		The pattern of GCE instance names to match for adding/removing tags. Full-Python regex is supported. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html for details. If instance_name is not specified, this field is required.
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.
state -	Choices: absent present ←	Desired state of the tags.
tags - / required		Comma-separated list of tags to add or remove.
zone -	Default: "us-central1-a"	The zone of the disk specified by source.

Notes

Note

• Either instance_name or instance_pattern is required.

Examples

- name: Add tags to instance
  gce_tag:
    instance_name: staging-server
    tags: http-server,https-server,staging
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

- name: Remove tags from instance in default zone (us-central1-a)
  gce_tag:
    instance_name: test-server
    tags: foo,bar
    state: absent

- name: Add tags to instances in zone that match pattern
  gce_tag:
    instance_pattern: test-server-*
    tags: foo,bar
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Do Hoang Khiem (@dohoangkhiem) <(dohoangkhiem@gmail.com>

• Tom Melendez (@supertom)

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