community.general.packet_device module – Manage a bare metal server in the Packet Host
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).
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.general.
You need further requirements to be able to use this module,
see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.packet_device.
Synopsis
Manage a bare metal server in the Packet Host (a “device” in the API terms).
When the machine is created it can optionally wait for public IP address, or for active state.
This module has a dependency on packet >= 1.0.
API is documented at https://www.packet.net/developers/api/devices.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
packet-python >= 1.35
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Persist PXE as the first boot option. Normally, the PXE process happens only on the first boot. Set this arg to have your device continuously boot to iPXE. Choices:
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Packet API token. You can also supply it in env var |
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The number of devices to create. Count number can be included in hostname via the %d string formatter. Default: |
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From which number to start the count. Default: |
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List of device IDs on which to operate. |
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Facility slug for device creation. See Packet API for current list - https://www.packet.net/developers/api/facilities/. |
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Dict with “features” for device creation. See Packet API docs for details. |
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A hostname of a device, or a list of hostnames. If given string or one-item list, you can use the If only one hostname, it might be expanded to list if count>1. |
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URL of custom iPXE script for provisioning. More about custom iPXE for Packet devices at https://help.packet.net/technical/infrastructure/custom-ipxe. Default: |
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Whether to lock a created device. Choices:
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OS slug for device creation. See Packet API for current list - https://www.packet.net/developers/api/operatingsystems/. |
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Plan slug for device creation. See Packet API for current list - https://www.packet.net/developers/api/plans/. |
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ID of project of the device. |
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Desired state of the device. If set to If set to Choices:
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List of device tags. Currently implemented only for device creation. |
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Userdata blob made available to the machine |
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Whether to wait for the instance to be assigned a public IPv4/IPv6 address. If set to 4, it will wait until IPv4 is assigned to the instance. If set to 6, wait until public IPv6 is assigned to the instance. Choices:
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How long (seconds) to wait either for automatic IP address assignment, or for the device to reach the If wait_for_public_IPv is set and state is Default: |
Notes
Note
Doesn’t support check mode.
Examples
# All the examples assume that you have your Packet API token in env var PACKET_API_TOKEN.
# You can also pass it to the auth_token parameter of the module instead.
# Creating devices
- name: Create 1 device
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- community.general.packet_device:
project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
hostnames: myserver
tags: ci-xyz
operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
plan: baremetal_0
facility: sjc1
# Create the same device and wait until it is in state "active", (when it's
# ready for other API operations). Fail if the device is not "active" in
# 10 minutes.
- name: Create device and wait up to 10 minutes for active state
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- community.general.packet_device:
project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
hostnames: myserver
operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
plan: baremetal_0
facility: sjc1
state: active
wait_timeout: 600
- name: Create 3 ubuntu devices called server-01, server-02 and server-03
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- community.general.packet_device:
project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
hostnames: server-%02d
count: 3
operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
plan: baremetal_0
facility: sjc1
- name: Create 3 coreos devices with userdata, wait until they get IPs and then wait for SSH
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Create 3 devices and register their facts
community.general.packet_device:
hostnames: [coreos-one, coreos-two, coreos-three]
operating_system: coreos_stable
plan: baremetal_0
facility: ewr1
locked: true
project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
wait_for_public_IPv: 4
user_data: |
#cloud-config
ssh_authorized_keys:
- {{ lookup('file', 'my_packet_sshkey') }}
coreos:
etcd:
discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/6a28e078895c5ec737174db2419bb2f3
addr: $private_ipv4:4001
peer-addr: $private_ipv4:7001
fleet:
public-ip: $private_ipv4
units:
- name: etcd.service
command: start
- name: fleet.service
command: start
register: newhosts
- name: Wait for ssh
ansible.builtin.wait_for:
delay: 1
host: "{{ item.public_ipv4 }}"
port: 22
state: started
timeout: 500
with_items: "{{ newhosts.devices }}"
# Other states of devices
- name: Remove 3 devices by uuid
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- community.general.packet_device:
project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
state: absent
device_ids:
- 1fb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c30d8
- 2eb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c3043
- 6bb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c301f
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
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True if a device was altered in any way (created, modified or removed) Returned: success Sample: |
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Information about each device that was processed Returned: success Sample: |
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