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community.general.packet_volume_attachment module – Attach/detach a volume to a device 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_volume_attachment.

New in community.general 0.2.0

Synopsis

• Attach/detach a volume to a device in the Packet host.

• API is documented at https://www.packet.com/developers/api/volumes/.

• This module creates the attachment route in the Packet API. In order to discover the block devices on the server, you have to run the Attach Scripts, as documented at https://help.packet.net/technical/storage/packet-block-storage-linux.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6

• packet-python >= 1.35

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
auth_token string	Packet API token. You can also supply it in env var PACKET_API_TOKEN.
device string	Selector for the device. It can be a UUID of the device, or a hostname. Example values: 98a14f7a-3d27-4478-b7cf-35b5670523f3, “my device”
project_id string / required	UUID of the project to which the device and volume belong.
state string	Indicate desired state of the attachment. Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent"
volume string / required	Selector for the volume. It can be a UUID, an API-generated volume name, or user-defined description string. Example values: 4a347482-b546-4f67-8300-fb5018ef0c5, volume-4a347482, “my volume”

Examples

# All the examples assume that you have your Packet API token in env var PACKET_API_TOKEN.
# You can also pass the api token in module param auth_token.

- hosts: localhost

  vars:
    volname: testvol
    devname: testdev
    project_id: 52000fb2-ee46-4673-93a8-de2c2bdba33b

  tasks:
    - name: Create volume
      packet_volume:
        description: "{{ volname }}"
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        facility: ewr1
        plan: storage_1
        state: present
        size: 10
        snapshot_policy:
          snapshot_count: 10
          snapshot_frequency: 1day

    - name: Create a device
      packet_device:
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        hostnames: "{{ devname }}"
        operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
        plan: baremetal_0
        facility: ewr1
        state: present

    - name: Attach testvol to testdev
      community.general.packet_volume_attachment:
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        volume: "{{ volname }}"
        device: "{{ devname }}"

    - name: Detach testvol from testdev
      community.general.packet_volume_attachment:
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        volume: "{{ volname }}"
        device: "{{ devname }}"
        state: absent

Return Values

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

Key	Description
device_id string	UUID of device addressed by the module call. Returned: success
volume_id string	UUID of volume addressed by the module call. Returned: success

Authors

• Tomas Karasek (@t0mk)

• Nurfet Becirevic (@nurfet-becirevic)

Collection links

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