azure.azcollection.azure_rm_galleryimage module – Manage Azure SIG Image instance

Note

This module is part of the azure.azcollection collection (version 1.13.0).

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 azure.azcollection.

To use it in a playbook, specify: azure.azcollection.azure_rm_galleryimage.

New in version 0.1.2: of azure.azcollection

Synopsis

  • Create, update and delete instance of Azure SIG Image.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • The host that executes this module must have the azure.azcollection collection installed via galaxy

  • All python packages listed in collection’s requirements-azure.txt must be installed via pip on the host that executes modules from azure.azcollection

  • Full installation instructions may be found https://galaxy.ansible.com/azure/azcollection

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

ad_user

string

Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.

adfs_authority_url

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.

api_profile

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of latest is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack.

Default: “latest”

append_tags

boolean

Use to control if tags field is canonical or just appends to existing tags.

When canonical, any tags not found in the tags parameter will be removed from the object’s metadata.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

auth_source

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.

Can also be set via the ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable.

When set to auto (the default) the precedence is module parameters -> env -> credential_file -> cli.

When set to env, the credentials will be read from the environment variables

When set to credential_file, it will read the profile from ~/.azure/credentials.

When set to cli, the credentials will be sources from the Azure CLI profile. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if more than one is present otherwise the default az cli subscription is used.

When set to msi, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension. subscription_id or the environment variable AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen.

The msi was added in Ansible 2.6.

Choices:

  • auto ← (default)

  • cli

  • credential_file

  • env

  • msi

cert_validation_mode

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing ignore. Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION environment variable.

Choices:

  • ignore

  • validate

client_id

string

Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

cloud_environment

string

added in 0.0.1 of azure.azcollection

For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, AzureChinaCloud, AzureUSGovernment), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or the AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT environment variable.

Default: “AzureCloud”

description

string

The description of this gallery Image Definition resource. This property is updatable.

disallowed

dictionary

Disallowed parameter values.

disk_types

list / elements=string

A list of disallowed disk types.

end_of_life_date

string

The end of life date of the gallery Image Definition.

This property can be used for decommissioning purposes.

This property is updatable.

Format should be according to ISO-8601, for instance “2019-06-26”.

eula

string

The Eula agreement for the gallery Image Definition.

string / required

The name of the Shared Image Gallery in which the Image Definition is to be created.

hypervgeneration

string

This property allows you to specify the Hyper V Version of the Virtual Machines.

Choices:

  • V1

  • V2

identifier

dictionary / required

Image identifier.

offer

string / required

The name of the gallery Image Definition offer.

publisher

string / required

The name of the gallery Image Definition publisher.

sku

string / required

The name of the gallery Image Definition SKU.

location

string

Resource location.

log_mode

string

Parent argument.

log_path

string

Parent argument.

name

string / required

The name of the gallery Image Definition to be created or updated.

The allowed characters are alphabets and numbers with dots, dashes, and periods allowed in the middle.

The maximum length is 80 characters.

os_state

string / required

The allowed values for OS State are generalized.

Choices:

  • generalized

  • specialized

os_type

string / required

This property allows you to specify the type of the OS that is included in the disk when creating a VM from a managed image.

Choices:

  • windows

  • linux

password

string

Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.

privacy_statement_uri

string

The privacy statement uri.

profile

string

Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.

purchase_plan

dictionary

Purchase plan.

name

string

The plan ID.

product

string

The product ID.

publisher

string

The publisher ID.

dictionary

Recommended parameter values.

dictionary

Memory.

integer

The maximum number of the resource.

integer

The minimum number of the resource.

dictionary

Number of virtual CPUs.

integer

The maximum number of the resource.

integer

The minimum number of the resource.

release_note_uri

string

The release note uri.

resource_group

string / required

The name of the resource group.

secret

string

Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

state

string

Assert the state of the GalleryImage.

Use present to create or update an GalleryImage and absent to delete it.

Choices:

  • absent

  • present ← (default)

subscription_id

string

Your Azure subscription Id.

tags

dictionary

Dictionary of string:string pairs to assign as metadata to the object.

Metadata tags on the object will be updated with any provided values.

To remove tags set append_tags option to false.

Currently, Azure DNS zones and Traffic Manager services also don’t allow the use of spaces in the tag.

Azure Front Door doesn’t support the use of

Azure Automation and Azure CDN only support 15 tags on resources.

tenant

string

Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

Notes

Note

  • For authentication with Azure you can pass parameters, set environment variables, use a profile stored in ~/.azure/credentials, or log in before you run your tasks or playbook with az login.

  • Authentication is also possible using a service principal or Active Directory user.

  • To authenticate via service principal, pass subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or set environment variables AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_SECRET and AZURE_TENANT.

  • To authenticate via Active Directory user, pass ad_user and password, or set AZURE_AD_USER and AZURE_PASSWORD in the environment.

  • Alternatively, credentials can be stored in ~/.azure/credentials. This is an ini file containing a [default] section and the following keys: subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or subscription_id, ad_user and password. It is also possible to add additional profiles. Specify the profile by passing profile or setting AZURE_PROFILE in the environment.

See Also

See also

Sign in with Azure CLI

How to authenticate using the az login command.

Examples

- name: Create or update gallery image
  azure_rm_galleryimage:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    gallery_name: myGallery1283
    name: myImage
    location: West US
    os_type: linux
    os_state: generalized
    identifier:
      publisher: myPublisherName
      offer: myOfferName
      sku: mySkuName

Return Values

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

Key

Description

id

string

Resource ID.

Returned: always

Sample: “/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/galleries/myGalle ry1283/images/myImage”

Authors

  • Zim Kalinowski (@zikalino)