community.general.profitbricks_nic module – Create or Remove a NIC

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.4.0).

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.profitbricks_nic.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 11.0.0

Why:

Module relies on library unsupported since 2021.

Alternative:

Profitbricks has rebranded as Ionos Cloud and they provide a collection named ionoscloudsdk.ionoscloud. Whilst it is likely it will provide the features of this module, that has not been verified. Please refer to that collection’s documentation for more details.

Synopsis

  • This module allows you to create or restore a volume snapshot. This module has a dependency on profitbricks >= 1.0.0.

Requirements

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

  • profitbricks

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

datacenter

string / required

The datacenter in which to operate.

lan

string

The LAN to place the NIC on. You can pass a LAN that does not exist and it will be created. Required on create.

name

string

The name or ID of the NIC. This is only required on deletes, but not on create.

If not specified, it defaults to a value based on UUID4.

server

string / required

The server name or ID.

state

string

Indicate desired state of the resource.

The available choices are: present, absent.

Default: "present"

subscription_password

string / required

THe ProfitBricks password. Overrides the PB_PASSWORD environment variable.

subscription_user

string / required

The ProfitBricks username. Overrides the PB_SUBSCRIPTION_ID environment variable.

wait

boolean

Wait for the operation to complete before returning.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

wait_timeout

integer

How long before wait gives up, in seconds.

Default: 600

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.

Examples

- name: Create a NIC
  community.general.profitbricks_nic:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    server: node002
    lan: 2
    wait_timeout: 500
    state: present

- name: Remove a NIC
  community.general.profitbricks_nic:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    server: node002
    name: 7341c2454f
    wait_timeout: 500
    state: absent

Status

  • This module will be removed in version 11.0.0. [deprecated]

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Matt Baldwin (@baldwinSPC)