google.cloud.gcp_compute_address module – Creates a GCP Address

Note

This module is part of the google.cloud collection (version 1.0.2).

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 google.cloud.

To use it in a playbook, specify: google.cloud.gcp_compute_address.

Synopsis

  • Represents an Address resource.

  • Each virtual machine instance has an ephemeral internal IP address and, optionally, an external IP address. To communicate between instances on the same network, you can use an instance’s internal IP address. To communicate with the Internet and instances outside of the same network, you must specify the instance’s external IP address.

  • Internal IP addresses are ephemeral and only belong to an instance for the lifetime of the instance; if the instance is deleted and recreated, the instance is assigned a new internal IP address, either by Compute Engine or by you. External IP addresses can be either ephemeral or static.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

  • requests >= 2.18.4

  • google-auth >= 1.3.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

address

string

The static external IP address represented by this resource. Only IPv4 is supported. An address may only be specified for INTERNAL address types. The IP address must be inside the specified subnetwork, if any.

address_type

string

The type of address to reserve.

Some valid choices include: “INTERNAL”, “EXTERNAL”

Default: “EXTERNAL”

auth_kind

string / required

The type of credential used.

Choices:

  • application

  • machineaccount

  • serviceaccount

description

string

An optional description of this resource.

env_type

string

Specifies which Ansible environment you’re running this module within.

This should not be set unless you know what you’re doing.

This only alters the User Agent string for any API requests.

name

string / required

Name of the resource. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.

network_tier

string

The networking tier used for configuring this address. If this field is not specified, it is assumed to be PREMIUM.

Some valid choices include: “PREMIUM”, “STANDARD”

project

string

The Google Cloud Platform project to use.

purpose

string

The purpose of this resource, which can be one of the following values: * GCE_ENDPOINT for addresses that are used by VM instances, alias IP ranges, internal load balancers, and similar resources.

  • SHARED_LOADBALANCER_VIP for an address that can be used by multiple internal load balancers.

  • VPC_PEERING for addresses that are reserved for VPC peer networks.

This should only be set when using an Internal address.

Some valid choices include: “GCE_ENDPOINT”, “VPC_PEERING”, “SHARED_LOADBALANCER_VIP”

region

string / required

URL of the region where the regional address resides.

This field is not applicable to global addresses.

scopes

list / elements=string

Array of scopes to be used

service_account_contents

jsonarg

The contents of a Service Account JSON file, either in a dictionary or as a JSON string that represents it.

service_account_email

string

An optional service account email address if machineaccount is selected and the user does not wish to use the default email.

service_account_file

path

The path of a Service Account JSON file if serviceaccount is selected as type.

state

string

Whether the given object should exist in GCP

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • absent

subnetwork

dictionary

The URL of the subnetwork in which to reserve the address. If an IP address is specified, it must be within the subnetwork’s IP range.

This field can only be used with INTERNAL type with GCE_ENDPOINT/DNS_RESOLVER purposes.

This field represents a link to a Subnetwork resource in GCP. It can be specified in two ways. First, you can place a dictionary with key ‘selfLink’ and value of your resource’s selfLink Alternatively, you can add register: name-of-resource to a gcp_compute_subnetwork task and then set this subnetwork field to “{{ name-of-resource }}”

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: create a address
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_address:
    name: test-address1
    region: us-west1
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key

Description

address

string

The static external IP address represented by this resource. Only IPv4 is supported. An address may only be specified for INTERNAL address types. The IP address must be inside the specified subnetwork, if any.

Returned: success

addressType

string

The type of address to reserve.

Returned: success

creationTimestamp

string

Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.

Returned: success

description

string

An optional description of this resource.

Returned: success

id

integer

The unique identifier for the resource.

Returned: success

name

string

Name of the resource. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.

Returned: success

networkTier

string

The networking tier used for configuring this address. If this field is not specified, it is assumed to be PREMIUM.

Returned: success

purpose

string

The purpose of this resource, which can be one of the following values: * GCE_ENDPOINT for addresses that are used by VM instances, alias IP ranges, internal load balancers, and similar resources.

  • SHARED_LOADBALANCER_VIP for an address that can be used by multiple internal load balancers.

  • VPC_PEERING for addresses that are reserved for VPC peer networks.

This should only be set when using an Internal address.

Returned: success

region

string

URL of the region where the regional address resides.

This field is not applicable to global addresses.

Returned: success

status

string

The status of the address, which can be one of RESERVING, RESERVED, or IN_USE.

An address that is RESERVING is currently in the process of being reserved.

A RESERVED address is currently reserved and available to use. An IN_USE address is currently being used by another resource and is not available.

Returned: success

subnetwork

dictionary

The URL of the subnetwork in which to reserve the address. If an IP address is specified, it must be within the subnetwork’s IP range.

This field can only be used with INTERNAL type with GCE_ENDPOINT/DNS_RESOLVER purposes.

Returned: success

users

list / elements=string

The URLs of the resources that are using this address.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Google Inc. (@googlecloudplatform)