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community.general.rax_files module – Manipulate Rackspace Cloud Files Containers

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_files.

Synopsis

• Manipulate Rackspace Cloud Files Containers.

• 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.

• pyrax

• python >= 2.6

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/
clear_meta boolean	Optionally clear existing metadata when applying metadata to existing containers. Selecting this option is only appropriate when setting type=meta Choices: false ← (default) true
container string	The container to use for container or metadata operations.
credentials aliases: creds_file path	File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.
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"
meta dictionary	A hash of items to set as metadata values on a container Default: {}
private boolean	Used to set a container as private, removing it from the CDN. Warning! Private containers, if previously made public, can have live objects available until the TTL on cached objects expires Choices: false ← (default) true
public boolean	Used to set a container as public, available via the Cloud Files CDN Choices: false ← (default) true
region string	Region to create an instance in
state string	Indicate desired state of the resource Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent" "list"
tenant_id string	The tenant ID used for authentication.
tenant_name string	The tenant name used for authentication.
ttl integer	In seconds, set a container-wide TTL for all objects cached on CDN edge nodes. Setting a TTL is only appropriate for containers that are public
type string	Type of object to do work on, i.e. metadata object or a container object Choices: "container" ← (default) "meta"
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
web_error string	Sets an object to be presented as the HTTP error page when accessed by the CDN URL
web_index string	Sets an object to be presented as the HTTP index page when accessed by the CDN URL

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, …)

• 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: "Test Cloud Files Containers"
  hosts: local
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: "List all containers"
      community.general.rax_files:
        state: list

    - name: "Create container called 'mycontainer'"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer

    - name: "Create container 'mycontainer2' with metadata"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer2
        meta:
          key: value
          file_for: [email protected]

    - name: "Set a container's web index page"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer
        web_index: index.html

    - name: "Set a container's web error page"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer
        web_error: error.html

    - name: "Make container public"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer
        public: true

    - name: "Make container public with a 24 hour TTL"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer
        public: true
        ttl: 86400

    - name: "Make container private"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer
        private: true

- name: "Test Cloud Files Containers Metadata Storage"
  hosts: local
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: "Get mycontainer2 metadata"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer2
        type: meta

    - name: "Set mycontainer2 metadata"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: mycontainer2
        type: meta
        meta:
          uploaded_by: [email protected]

    - name: "Remove mycontainer2 metadata"
      community.general.rax_files:
        container: "mycontainer2"
        type: meta
        state: absent
        meta:
          key: ""
          file_for: ""

Authors

• Paul Durivage (@angstwad)

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