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community.general.clc_aa_policy – Create or Delete Anti Affinity Policies at CenturyLink Cloud.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.clc_aa_policy.

Synopsis

• An Ansible module to Create or Delete Anti Affinity Policies at CenturyLink Cloud.

Requirements

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

• python = 2.7

• requests >= 2.5.0

• clc-sdk

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
location string / required	Datacenter in which the policy lives/should live.
name string / required	The name of the Anti Affinity Policy.
state string	Whether to create or delete the policy. Choices: present ← (default) absent

Notes

Note

• To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud

• Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud

• Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples

# Note - You must set the CLC_V2_API_USERNAME And CLC_V2_API_PASSWD Environment variables before running these examples

---
- name: Create AA Policy
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Create an Anti Affinity Policy
      community.general.clc_aa_policy:
        name: Hammer Time
        location: UK3
        state: present
      register: policy

    - name: Debug
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        var: policy

- name: Delete AA Policy
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Delete an Anti Affinity Policy
      community.general.clc_aa_policy:
        name: Hammer Time
        location: UK3
        state: absent
      register: policy

    - name: Debug
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        var: policy

Return Values

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

Key	Description
policy dictionary	The anti affinity policy information Returned: success Sample: {“id”: “1a28dd0988984d87b9cd61fa8da15424”, “links”: [{“href”: “/v2/antiAffinityPolicies/wfad/1a28dd0988984d87b9cd61fa8da15424”, “rel”: “self”, “verbs”: [“GET”, “DELETE”, “PUT”]}, {“href”: “/v2/datacenters/wfad/UC1”, “id”: “uc1”, “name”: “UC1 - US West (Santa Clara)”, “rel”: “location”}], “location”: “UC1”, “name”: “test_aa_policy”}

Authors

• CLC Runner (@clc-runner)