gcp_iam_role – Creates a GCP Role

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

• A role in the Identity and Access Management API .

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• requests >= 2.18.4
• google-auth >= 1.3.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_kind string / required	Choices: application machineaccount serviceaccount	The type of credential used.
description string		Human-readable description for the role.
env_type string		Specifies which Ansible environment you're running this module within. This should not be set unless you know what you're doing. This only alters the User Agent string for any API requests.
included_permissions list		Names of permissions this role grants when bound in an IAM policy.
name string / required		The name of the role.
project string		The Google Cloud Platform project to use.
scopes list		Array of scopes to be used.
service_account_contents jsonarg		The contents of a Service Account JSON file, either in a dictionary or as a JSON string that represents it.
service_account_email string		An optional service account email address if machineaccount is selected and the user does not wish to use the default email.
service_account_file path		The path of a Service Account JSON file if serviceaccount is selected as type.
stage string		The current launch stage of the role. Some valid choices include: "ALPHA", "BETA", "GA", "DEPRECATED", "DISABLED", "EAP"
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Whether the given object should exist in GCP
title string		A human-readable title for the role. Typically this is limited to 100 UTF-8 bytes.

Notes

Note

• for authentication, you can set service_account_file using the c(gcp_service_account_file) env variable.
• for authentication, you can set service_account_contents using the c(GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CONTENTS) env variable.
• For authentication, you can set service_account_email using the GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL env variable.
• For authentication, you can set auth_kind using the GCP_AUTH_KIND env variable.
• For authentication, you can set scopes using the GCP_SCOPES env variable.
• Environment variables values will only be used if the playbook values are not set.
• The service_account_email and service_account_file options are mutually exclusive.

Examples

- name: create a role
  gcp_iam_role:
    name: myCustomRole2
    title: My Custom Role
    description: My custom role description
    included_permissions:
    - iam.roles.list
    - iam.roles.create
    - iam.roles.delete
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
deleted boolean	success	The current deleted state of the role.
description string	success	Human-readable description for the role.
includedPermissions list	success	Names of permissions this role grants when bound in an IAM policy.
name string	success	The name of the role.
stage string	success	The current launch stage of the role.
title string	success	A human-readable title for the role. Typically this is limited to 100 UTF-8 bytes.

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Google Inc. (@googlecloudplatform)

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