community.general.rax_cbs_attachments module – Manipulate Rackspace Cloud Block Storage Volume Attachments

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.2).

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 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.rax_cbs_attachments.

Synopsis

  • Manipulate Rackspace Cloud Block Storage Volume Attachments

  • This module relies on the pyrax package which is deprecated in favour of using Openstack API.

  • Unless maintainers step up to work on the module, it will be marked as deprecated in community.general 7.0.0 and removed in version 9.0.0.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6

  • pyrax

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_key

aliases: password

string

Rackspace API key, overrides credentials.

auth_endpoint

string

The URI of the authentication service.

If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/

credentials

aliases: creds_file

path

File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.

device

string

The device path to attach the volume to, e.g. /dev/xvde.

Before 2.4 this was a required field. Now it can be left to null to auto assign the device name.

env

string

Environment as configured in ~/.pyrax.cfg, see https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#pyrax-configuration.

identity_type

string

Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.

Default: "rackspace"

region

string

Region to create an instance in.

server

string / required

Name or id of the server to attach/detach

state

string

Indicate desired state of the resource

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tenant_id

string

The tenant ID used for authentication.

tenant_name

string

The tenant name used for authentication.

username

string

Rackspace username, overrides credentials.

validate_certs

aliases: verify_ssl

boolean

Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

volume

string / required

Name or id of the volume to attach/detach

wait

boolean

wait for the volume to be in ‘in-use’/’available’ state before returning

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

wait_timeout

integer

how long before wait gives up, in seconds

Default: 300

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.

  • RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating

  • RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file

  • RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)

Examples

- name: Attach a Block Storage Volume
  gather_facts: false
  hosts: local
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Storage volume attach request
      local_action:
        module: rax_cbs_attachments
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        volume: my-volume
        server: my-server
        device: /dev/xvdd
        region: DFW
        wait: true
        state: present
      register: my_volume

Authors

  • Christopher H. Laco (@claco)

  • Matt Martz (@sivel)