community.google.gce_net module – create/destroy GCE networks and firewall rules

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_net.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

  • apache-libcloud >= 0.13.3, >= 0.17.0 if using JSON credentials

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

allowed

string

the protocol:ports to allow (tcp:80 or tcp:80,443 or tcp:80-800;udp:1-25) this parameter is mandatory when creating or updating a firewall rule

credentials_file

path

path to the JSON file associated with the service account email

fwname

string

name of the firewall rule

ipv4_range

string

the IPv4 address range in CIDR notation for the network this parameter is not mandatory when you specified existing network in name parameter, but when you create new network, this parameter is mandatory

mode

string

network mode for Google Cloud legacy indicates a network with an IP address range; auto automatically generates subnetworks in different regions; custom uses networks to group subnets of user specified IP address ranges https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking#network_types

Choices:

  • legacy ← (default)

  • auto

  • custom

name

string

name of the network

pem_file

path

path to the pem file associated with the service account email This option is deprecated. Use credentials_file.

project_id

string

your GCE project ID

service_account_email

string

service account email

src_range

list / elements=string

the source IPv4 address range in CIDR notation

Default: []

src_tags

list / elements=string

the source instance tags for creating a firewall rule

Default: []

state

string

desired state of the network or firewall

Available choices are: active, present, absent, deleted.

Default: “present”

subnet_desc

string

description of subnet to create

subnet_name

string

name of subnet to create

subnet_region

string

region of subnet to create

target_tags

list / elements=string

the target instance tags for creating a firewall rule

Default: []

Examples

# Create a 'legacy' Network
- name: Create Legacy Network
  community.google.gce_net:
    name: legacynet
    ipv4_range: '10.24.17.0/24'
    mode: legacy
    state: present

# Create an 'auto' Network
- name: Create Auto Network
  community.google.gce_net:
    name: autonet
    mode: auto
    state: present

# Create a 'custom' Network
- name: Create Custom Network
  community.google.gce_net:
    name: customnet
    mode: custom
    subnet_name: "customsubnet"
    subnet_region: us-east1
    ipv4_range: '10.240.16.0/24'
    state: "present"

# Create Firewall Rule with Source Tags
- name: Create Firewall Rule w/Source Tags
  community.google.gce_net:
    name: default
    fwname: "my-firewall-rule"
    allowed: tcp:80
    state: "present"
    src_tags: "foo,bar"

# Create Firewall Rule with Source Range
- name: Create Firewall Rule w/Source Range
  community.google.gce_net:
    name: default
    fwname: "my-firewall-rule"
    allowed: tcp:80
    state: "present"
    src_range: ['10.1.1.1/32']

# Create Custom Subnetwork
- name: Create Custom Subnetwork
  community.google.gce_net:
    name: privatenet
    mode: custom
    subnet_name: subnet_example
    subnet_region: us-central1
    ipv4_range: '10.0.0.0/16'

Return Values

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

Key

Description

allowed

string

Rules (ports and protocols) specified by this firewall rule.

Returned: When specified

Sample:tcp:80;icmp

fwname

string

Name of the firewall rule.

Returned: When specified

Sample: “my-fwname”

ipv4_range

string

IPv4 range of the specified network or subnetwork.

Returned: when specified or when a subnetwork is created

Sample: “10.0.0.0/16”

name

string

Name of the network.

Returned: always

Sample: “my-network”

src_range

list / elements=string

IP address blocks a firewall rule applies to.

Returned: when specified

Sample: [“10.1.1.12/8”]

src_tags

list / elements=string

Instance Tags firewall rule applies to.

Returned: when specified while creating a firewall rule

Sample: [“foo”, “bar”]

state

string

State of the item operated on.

Returned: always

Sample: “present”

subnet_name

string

Name of the subnetwork.

Returned: when specified or when a subnetwork is created

Sample: “my-subnetwork”

subnet_region

string

Region of the specified subnet.

Returned: when specified or when a subnetwork is created

Sample: “us-east1”

target_tags

list / elements=string

Instance Tags with these tags receive traffic allowed by firewall rule.

Returned: when specified while creating a firewall rule

Sample: [“foo”, “bar”]

Authors

  • Eric Johnson (@erjohnso) , Tom Melendez (@supertom)