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community.google.gce_snapshot – Create or destroy snapshots for GCE storage volumes

Note

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

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.google.

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

Synopsis

• Manages snapshots for GCE instances. This module manages snapshots for the storage volumes of a GCE compute instance. If there are multiple volumes, each snapshot will be prepended with the disk name

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6

• apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
credentials_file path	The path to the credentials file associated with the service account
disks list / elements=string	A list of disks to create snapshots for. If none is provided, all of the volumes will have snapshots created.
instance_name string / required	The GCE instance to snapshot
project_id string	The GCP project ID to use
service_account_email string	GCP service account email for the project where the instance resides
snapshot_name string / required	The name of the snapshot to manage
state string	Whether a snapshot should be present or absent Choices: present ← (default) absent

Examples

- name: Create gce snapshot
  community.google.gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: present
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete gce snapshot
  community.google.gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: absent
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

# This example creates snapshots for only two of the available disks as
# disk0-example-snapshot and disk1-example-snapshot
- name: Create snapshots of specific disks
  community.google.gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: present
    disks:
      - disk0
      - disk1
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key	Description
snapshots_absent list / elements=string	List of snapshots that were already absent (no-op) Returned: When snapshots were already absent Sample: “[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]”
snapshots_created list / elements=string	List of newly created snapshots Returned: When snapshots are created Sample: “[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]”
snapshots_deleted list / elements=string	List of destroyed snapshots Returned: When snapshots are deleted Sample: “[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]”
snapshots_existing list / elements=string	List of snapshots that already existed (no-op) Returned: When snapshots were already present Sample: “[disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]”

Authors

• Rob Wagner (@robwagner33)