vultr.cloud.user module – Manages users on Vultr

Note

This module is part of the vultr.cloud collection (version 1.13.0).

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 vultr.cloud.

To use it in a playbook, specify: vultr.cloud.user.

New in vultr.cloud 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Create, update and remove users.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

acls

aliases: acl

list / elements=string

List of ACLs this users should have.

Required if state=present.

One or more of the choices list, some depend on each other.

Choices:

  • "manage_users"

  • "subscriptions_view"

  • "subscriptions"

  • "provisioning"

  • "billing"

  • "support"

  • "abuse"

  • "dns"

  • "upgrade"

  • "objstore"

  • "loadbalancer"

api_enabled

boolean

Whether the API is enabled or not.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

api_endpoint

string

URL to API endpint (without trailing slash).

Fallback environment variable VULTR_API_ENDPOINT.

Default: "https://api.vultr.com/v2"

api_key

string / required

API key of the Vultr API.

Fallback environment variable VULTR_API_KEY.

api_retries

integer

Amount of retries in case of the Vultr API retuns an HTTP error code, such as - 429 Too Many Requests - 500 Internal Server Error - 504 Gateway Time-out

Fallback environment variable VULTR_API_RETRIES.

Default: 5

api_retry_max_delay

integer

Retry backoff delay in seconds is exponential up to this max. value, in seconds.

Fallback environment variable VULTR_API_RETRY_MAX_DELAY.

Default: 12

api_timeout

integer

HTTP timeout to Vultr API.

Fallback environment variable VULTR_API_TIMEOUT.

Default: 180

email

string

Email of the user.

Required if state=present.

force

boolean

Password will only be changed with enforcement.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

name

string / required

Name of the user

password

string

Password of the user.

Only considered while creating a user or when force=true.

state

string

State of the user.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

validate_certs

boolean

Validate SSL certs of the Vultr API.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: Ensure a user exists
  vultr.cloud.user:
    name: john
    email: [email protected]
    password: s3cr3t
    acls:
    - manage_users
    - subscriptions

- name: Remove a user
  vultr.cloud.user:
    name: john
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

vultr_api

dictionary

Response from Vultr API with a few additions/modification.

Returned: success

api_endpoint

string

Endpoint used for the API requests.

Returned: success

Sample: "https://api.vultr.com/v2"

api_retries

integer

Amount of max retries for the API requests.

Returned: success

Sample: 5

api_retry_max_delay

integer

Exponential backoff delay in seconds between retries up to this max delay value.

Returned: success

Sample: 12

api_timeout

integer

Timeout used for the API requests.

Returned: success

Sample: 60

vultr_user

dictionary

Response from Vultr API.

Returned: success

acls

list / elements=string

List of ACLs of the user.

Returned: success

Sample: ["manage_users", "support", "upgrade"]

api_enabled

boolean

Whether the API is enabled or not.

Returned: success

Sample: true

api_key

string

API key of the user.

Returned: only after resource was created

Sample: "567E6K567E6K567E6K567E6K567E6K"

email

string

Email of the user.

Returned: success

Sample: "john@example.com"

id

string

ID of the user.

Returned: success

Sample: "7d726ffe-9be2-4f88-8cda-fa7eba1da2b5"

name

string

Name of the user.

Returned: success

Sample: "john"

Authors

  • René Moser (@resmo)