community.general.lxd_profile module – Manage LXD profiles

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.1.0).

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.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.lxd_profile.

Synopsis 

Management of LXD profiles

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
client_cert aliases: cert_file path	The client certificate file path. If not specified, it defaults to `$HOME/.config/lxc/client.crt`.
client_key aliases: key_file path	The client certificate key file path. If not specified, it defaults to `$HOME/.config/lxc/client.key`.
config dictionary	The config for the instance (e.g. {“limits.memory”: “4GB”}). See https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/api/#/profiles/profile_get. If the profile already exists and its “config” value in metadata obtained from GET /1.0/profiles/<name> https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/api/#/profiles/profile_get are different, then this module tries to apply the configurations https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/api/#/profiles/profile_put. Not all config values are supported to apply the existing profile. Maybe you need to delete and recreate a profile.
description string	Description of the profile.
devices dictionary	The devices for the profile (e.g. {“rootfs”: {“path”: “/dev/kvm”, “type”: “unix-char”}). See https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/api/#/profiles/profile_get.
merge_profile boolean added in community.general 2.1.0	Merge the configuration of the present profile with the new desired configuration, instead of replacing it. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
name string / required	Name of a profile.
new_name string	A new name of a profile. If this parameter is specified a profile will be renamed to this name. See https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/api/#/profiles/profile_post.
project string added in community.general 4.8.0	Project of a profile. See https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/latest/projects/.
snap_url string	The unix domain socket path when LXD is installed by snap package manager. Default: `"unix:/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket"`
state string	Define the state of a profile. Choices: `"present"` ← (default) `"absent"`
trust_password string	The client trusted password. You need to set this password on the LXD server before running this module using the following command. lxc config set core.trust_password <some random password> See https://www.stgraber.org/2016/04/18/lxd-api-direct-interaction/ If trust_password is set, this module send a request for authentication before sending any requests.
url string	The unix domain socket path or the https URL for the LXD server. Default: `"unix:/var/lib/lxd/unix.socket"`

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

Profiles must have a unique name. If you attempt to create a profile with a name that already existed in the users namespace the module will simply return as “unchanged”.

Examples 

# An example for creating a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Create a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: macvlan
        state: present
        config: {}
        description: my macvlan profile
        devices:
          eth0:
            nictype: macvlan
            parent: br0
            type: nic

# An example for creating a profile in project mytestproject
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Create a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: testprofile
        project: mytestproject
        state: present
        config: {}
        description: test profile in project mytestproject
        devices: {}

# An example for creating a profile via http connection
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Create macvlan profile
    community.general.lxd_profile:
      url: https://127.0.0.1:8443
      # These client_cert and client_key values are equal to the default values.
      #client_cert: "{{ lookup('env', 'HOME') }}/.config/lxc/client.crt"
      #client_key: "{{ lookup('env', 'HOME') }}/.config/lxc/client.key"
      trust_password: mypassword
      name: macvlan
      state: present
      config: {}
      description: my macvlan profile
      devices:
        eth0:
          nictype: macvlan
          parent: br0
          type: nic

# An example for modify/merge a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Merge a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        merge_profile: true
        name: macvlan
        state: present
        config: {}
        description: my macvlan profile
        devices:
          eth0:
            nictype: macvlan
            parent: br0
            type: nic

# An example for deleting a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Delete a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: macvlan
        state: absent

# An example for renaming a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Rename a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: macvlan
        new_name: macvlan2
        state: present

Return Values 

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

Key	Description
actions list / elements=string	List of actions performed for the profile. Returned: success Sample: `["create"]`
logs list / elements=string	The logs of requests and responses. Returned: when ansible-playbook is invoked with -vvvv. Sample: `["(too long to be placed here)"]`
old_state string	The old state of the profile Returned: success Sample: `"absent"`

Authors

Hiroaki Nakamura (@hnakamur)

community.general.lxd_profile module – Manage LXD profiles

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