community.general.solaris_zone module – Manage Solaris zones

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 7.5.2).

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.solaris_zone.

Synopsis

  • Create, start, stop and delete Solaris zones.

  • This module does not currently allow changing of options for a zone that is already been created.

Aliases: system.solaris_zone

Requirements

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

  • Solaris 10 or 11

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

attach_options

string

Extra options to the zoneadm attach command. For example, this can be used to specify whether a minimum or full update of packages is required and if any packages need to be deleted. For valid values, see zoneadm(1M)

Default: ""

config

string

The zonecfg configuration commands for this zone. See zonecfg(1M) for the valid options and syntax. Typically this is a list of options separated by semi-colons or new lines, e.g. “set auto-boot=true;add net;set physical=bge0;set address=10.1.1.1;end”

Default: ""

create_options

string

Extra options to the zonecfg(1M) create command.

Default: ""

install_options

string

Extra options to the zoneadm(1M) install command. To automate Solaris 11 zone creation, use this to specify the profile XML file, e.g. install_options=”-c sc_profile.xml”

Default: ""

name

string / required

Zone name.

A zone name must be unique name.

A zone name must begin with an alphanumeric character.

The name can contain alphanumeric characters, underscores _, hyphens -, and periods ..

The name cannot be longer than 64 characters.

path

string

The path where the zone will be created. This is required when the zone is created, but not used otherwise.

root_password

string

The password hash for the root account. If not specified, the zone’s root account will not have a password.

sparse

boolean

Whether to create a sparse (true) or whole root (false) zone.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

present, configure and install the zone.

installed, synonym for present.

running, if the zone already exists, boot it, otherwise, configure and install the zone first, then boot it.

started, synonym for running.

stopped, shutdown a zone.

absent, destroy the zone.

configured, configure the ready so that it’s to be attached.

attached, attach a zone, but do not boot it.

detached, shutdown and detach a zone

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "attached"

  • "configured"

  • "detached"

  • "installed"

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "running"

  • "started"

  • "stopped"

timeout

integer

Timeout, in seconds, for zone to boot.

Default: 600

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

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.

Examples

- name: Create and install a zone, but don't boot it
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: present
    path: /zones/zone1
    sparse: true
    root_password: Be9oX7OSwWoU.
    config: 'set autoboot=true; add net; set physical=bge0; set address=10.1.1.1; end'

- name: Create and install a zone and boot it
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: running
    path: /zones/zone1
    root_password: Be9oX7OSwWoU.
    config: 'set autoboot=true; add net; set physical=bge0; set address=10.1.1.1; end'

- name: Boot an already installed zone
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: running

- name: Stop a zone
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: stopped

- name: Destroy a zone
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: absent

- name: Detach a zone
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: detached

- name: Configure a zone, ready to be attached
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: configured
    path: /zones/zone1
    root_password: Be9oX7OSwWoU.
    config: 'set autoboot=true; add net; set physical=bge0; set address=10.1.1.1; end'

- name: Attach zone1
  community.general.solaris_zone:
    name: zone1
    state: attached
    attach_options: -u

Authors

  • Paul Markham (@pmarkham)