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 8.6.7).

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

Aliases: cloud.packet.packet_volume_attachment

Requirements

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

  • packet-python >= 1.35

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth_token

string

Packet API token. You can also supply it in environment variable 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”

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

# 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)