community.google.gce_eip module – Create or Destroy Global or Regional External IP addresses.

Note

This module 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_eip.

Synopsis

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 JSON file associated with the service account email.

name

string / required

Name of Address.

pem_file

path

The path to the PEM file associated with the service account email.

This option is deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Use credentials_file instead.

project_id

string

The Google Cloud Platform project ID to use.

region

string / required

Region to create the address in. Set to ‘global’ to create a global address.

service_account_email

string

service account email

service_account_permissions

list / elements=string

service account permissions

state

string

The state the address should be in. present or absent are the only valid options.

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

Notes

Note

  • Global addresses can only be used with Global Forwarding Rules.

Examples

- name: Create a Global external IP address
  community.google.gce_eip:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    name: my-global-ip
    region: global
    state: present

- name: Create a Regional external IP address
  community.google.gce_eip:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    name: my-global-ip
    region: us-east1
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key

Description

address

string

IP address being operated on

Returned: always

Sample: “35.186.222.233”

name

string

name of the address being operated on

Returned: always

Sample: “my-address”

region

string

Which region an address belongs.

Returned: always

Sample: “global”

Authors

  • Tom Melendez (@supertom)