community.google.gce_img – utilize GCE image resources

Note

This plugin is part of the community.google collection (version 1.0.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.google.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.google.gce_img.

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
string
an optional description
family
string
an optional family name
name
string / required
the name of the image to create or delete
pem_file
path
path to the pem file associated with the service account email
project_id
string
your GCE project ID
service_account_email
string
service account email
source
string
the source disk or the Google Cloud Storage URI to create the image from
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
desired state of the image
timeout
integer
Default:
180
timeout for the operation
zone
string
Default:
"us-central1-a"
the zone of the disk specified by source

Examples

- name: Create an image named test-image from the disk 'test-disk' in zone us-central1-a
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: test-disk
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

- name: Create an image named test-image from a tarball in Google Cloud Storage
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/path/to/image.tgz

- name: Alternatively use the gs scheme
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: gs://bucket/path/to/image.tgz

- name: Delete an image named test-image
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    state: absent

Authors

  • Tom Melendez (@supertom)