cs_instance_info – Gathering information from the API of instances from Apache CloudStack based clouds

New in version 2.9.

Synopsis

• Gathering information from the API of an instance.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• cs >= 0.6.10

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
account string		Account the instance is related to.
api_http_method string	Choices: get post	HTTP method used to query the API endpoint. If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_METHOD env variable is considered. As the last option, the value is taken from the ini config file, also see the notes. Fallback value is get if not specified.
api_key string		API key of the CloudStack API. If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_KEY env variable is considered. As the last option, the value is taken from the ini config file, also see the notes.
api_region string	Default: "cloudstack"	Name of the ini section in the cloustack.ini file. If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_REGION env variable is considered.
api_secret string		Secret key of the CloudStack API. If not set, the CLOUDSTACK_SECRET env variable is considered. As the last option, the value is taken from the ini config file, also see the notes.
api_timeout integer		HTTP timeout in seconds. If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT env variable is considered. As the last option, the value is taken from the ini config file, also see the notes. Fallback value is 10 seconds if not specified.
api_url string		URL of the CloudStack API e.g. https://cloud.example.com/client/api. If not given, the CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT env variable is considered. As the last option, the value is taken from the ini config file, also see the notes.
domain string		Domain the instance is related to.
name string		Name or display name of the instance. If not specified, all instances are returned
project string		Project the instance is related to.

Notes

Note

• Ansible uses the cs library’s configuration method if credentials are not provided by the arguments api_url, api_key, api_secret. Configuration is read from several locations, in the following order. The CLOUDSTACK_ENDPOINT, CLOUDSTACK_KEY, CLOUDSTACK_SECRET and CLOUDSTACK_METHOD. CLOUDSTACK_TIMEOUT environment variables. A CLOUDSTACK_CONFIG environment variable pointing to an .ini file. A cloudstack.ini file in the current working directory. A .cloudstack.ini file in the users home directory. Optionally multiple credentials and endpoints can be specified using ini sections in cloudstack.ini. Use the argument api_region to select the section name, default section is cloudstack. See https://github.com/exoscale/cs for more information.
• A detailed guide about cloudstack modules can be found in the CloudStack Cloud Guide.
• This module supports check mode.

Examples

- name: Gather instance information
  cs_instance_info:
    name: web-vm-1
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vm

- name: Show the returned results of the registered variable
  debug:
    msg: "{{ vm }}"

- name: Gather information from all instances
  cs_instance_info:
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vms

- name: Show information on all instances
  debug:
    msg: "{{ vms }}"

Return Values

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

Key			Returned	Description
instances list			success	A list of matching instances.
	account string		success	Account the instance is related to. Sample: example account
	affinity_groups list		success	Affinity groups the instance is in. Sample: [ "webservers" ]
	created string		success	Date of the instance was created. Sample: 2014-12-01T14:57:57+0100
	default_ip string		success	Default IP address of the instance. Sample: 10.23.37.42
	display_name string		success	Display name of the instance. Sample: web-01
	domain string		success	Domain the instance is related to. Sample: example domain
	group string		success	Group name of the instance is related. Sample: web
	host string added in 2.6		success and instance is running	Host the instance is running on. Sample: host01.example.com
	hypervisor string		success	Hypervisor related to this instance. Sample: KVM
	id string		success	UUID of the instance. Sample: 04589590-ac63-4ffc-93f5-b698b8ac38b6
	instance_name string		success	Internal name of the instance (ROOT admin only). Sample: i-44-3992-VM
	iso string		success	Name of ISO the instance was deployed with. Sample: Debian-8-64bit
	name string		success	Name of the instance. Sample: web-01
	nic complex added in 2.8		success	List of dictionaries of the instance nics.
		broadcasturi string	success	The broadcast uri of the nic. Sample: vlan://2250
		gateway string	success	The gateway of the nic. Sample: 10.1.2.1
		id string	success	The ID of the nic. Sample: 5dc74fa3-2ec3-48a0-9e0d-6f43365336a9
		ipaddress string	success	The ip address of the nic. Sample: 10.1.2.3
		isdefault boolean	success	True if nic is default, false otherwise. Sample: True
		isolationuri string	success	The isolation uri of the nic. Sample: vlan://2250
		macaddress string	success	The mac address of the nic. Sample: 06:a2:03:00:08:12
		netmask string	success	The netmask of the nic. Sample: 255.255.255.0
		networkid string	success	The ID of the corresponding network. Sample: 432ce27b-c2bb-4e12-a88c-a919cd3a3017
		networkname string	success	The name of the corresponding network. Sample: network1
		traffictype string	success	The traffic type of the nic. Sample: Guest
		type string	success	The type of the network. Sample: Shared
	password string		success	The password of the instance if exists. Sample: Ge2oe7Do
	password_enabled boolean		success	True if password setting is enabled. Sample: True
	project string		success	Name of project the instance is related to. Sample: Production
	public_ip string		success	Public IP address with instance via static NAT rule. Sample: 1.2.3.4
	security_groups list		success	Security groups the instance is in. Sample: [ "default" ]
	service_offering string		success	Name of the service offering the instance has. Sample: 2cpu_2gb
	ssh_key string		success	Name of SSH key deployed to instance. Sample: key@work
	state string		success	State of the instance. Sample: Running
	tags list		success	List of resource tags associated with the instance. Sample: [ { "key": "foo", "value": "bar" } ]
	template string		success	Name of template the instance was deployed with. Sample: Debian-8-64bit
	volumes list		success	List of dictionaries of the volumes attached to the instance. Sample: [ { name: "ROOT-1369", type: "ROOT", size: 10737418240 }, { name: "data01, type: "DATADISK", size: 10737418240 } ]
	zone string		success	Name of zone the instance is in. Sample: ch-gva-2

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have backward compatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• René Moser (@resmo)

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