community.general.packet_device module – Manage a bare metal server in the Packet Host

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.5.0).

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.packet_device.

Synopsis

  • Manage a bare metal server in the Packet Host (a “device” in the API terms).

  • When the machine is created it can optionally wait for public IP address, or for active state.

  • This module has a dependency on packet >= 1.0.

  • API is documented at https://www.packet.net/developers/api/devices.

Aliases: cloud.packet.packet_device

Requirements

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

  • packet-python >= 1.35

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

always_pxe

boolean

Persist PXE as the first boot option.

Normally, the PXE process happens only on the first boot. Set this arg to have your device continuously boot to iPXE.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

auth_token

string

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

count

integer

The number of devices to create. Count number can be included in hostname via the %d string formatter.

Default: 1

count_offset

integer

From which number to start the count.

Default: 1

device_ids

list / elements=string

List of device IDs on which to operate.

facility

string

Facility slug for device creation. See Packet API for current list - https://www.packet.net/developers/api/facilities/.

features

dictionary

Dict with “features” for device creation. See Packet API docs for details.

hostnames

aliases: name

list / elements=string

A hostname of a device, or a list of hostnames.

If given string or one-item list, you can use the "%d" Python string format to expand numbers from count.

If only one hostname, it might be expanded to list if count>1.

ipxe_script_url

string

URL of custom iPXE script for provisioning.

More about custom iPXE for Packet devices at https://help.packet.net/technical/infrastructure/custom-ipxe.

Default: ""

locked

aliases: lock

boolean

Whether to lock a created device.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

operating_system

string

OS slug for device creation. See Packet API for current list - https://www.packet.net/developers/api/operatingsystems/.

plan

string

Plan slug for device creation. See Packet API for current list - https://www.packet.net/developers/api/plans/.

project_id

string / required

ID of project of the device.

state

string

Desired state of the device.

If set to present (the default), the module call will return immediately after the device-creating HTTP request successfully returns.

If set to active, the module call will block until all the specified devices are in state active due to the Packet API, or until wait_timeout.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

  • "active"

  • "inactive"

  • "rebooted"

tags

list / elements=string

added in community.general 0.2.0

List of device tags.

Currently implemented only for device creation.

user_data

string

Userdata blob made available to the machine

wait_for_public_IPv

integer

Whether to wait for the instance to be assigned a public IPv4/IPv6 address.

If set to 4, it will wait until IPv4 is assigned to the instance.

If set to 6, wait until public IPv6 is assigned to the instance.

Choices:

  • 4

  • 6

wait_timeout

integer

How long (seconds) to wait either for automatic IP address assignment, or for the device to reach the active state.

If wait_for_public_IPv is set and state=active, the module will wait for both events consequently, applying the timeout twice.

Default: 900

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

# All the examples assume that you have your Packet API token in environment variable PACKET_API_TOKEN.
# You can also pass it to the auth_token parameter of the module instead.

# Creating devices

- name: Create 1 device
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - community.general.packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      hostnames: myserver
      tags: ci-xyz
      operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: sjc1

# Create the same device and wait until it is in state "active", (when it's
# ready for other API operations). Fail if the device is not "active" in
# 10 minutes.

- name: Create device and wait up to 10 minutes for active state
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - community.general.packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      hostnames: myserver
      operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: sjc1
      state: active
      wait_timeout: 600

- name: Create 3 ubuntu devices called server-01, server-02 and server-03
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - community.general.packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      hostnames: server-%02d
      count: 3
      operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: sjc1

- name: Create 3 coreos devices with userdata, wait until they get IPs and then wait for SSH
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: Create 3 devices and register their facts
    community.general.packet_device:
      hostnames: [coreos-one, coreos-two, coreos-three]
      operating_system: coreos_stable
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: ewr1
      locked: true
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      wait_for_public_IPv: 4
      user_data: |
        #cloud-config
        ssh_authorized_keys:
          - {{ lookup('file', 'my_packet_sshkey') }}
        coreos:
          etcd:
            discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/6a28e078895c5ec737174db2419bb2f3
            addr: $private_ipv4:4001
            peer-addr: $private_ipv4:7001
          fleet:
            public-ip: $private_ipv4
          units:
            - name: etcd.service
              command: start
            - name: fleet.service
              command: start
    register: newhosts

  - name: Wait for ssh
    ansible.builtin.wait_for:
      delay: 1
      host: "{{ item.public_ipv4 }}"
      port: 22
      state: started
      timeout: 500
    with_items: "{{ newhosts.devices }}"


# Other states of devices

- name: Remove 3 devices by uuid
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - community.general.packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      state: absent
      device_ids:
        - 1fb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c30d8
        - 2eb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c3043
        - 6bb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c301f

Return Values

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

Key

Description

changed

boolean

True if a device was altered in any way (created, modified or removed)

Returned: success

Sample: true

devices

list / elements=string

Information about each device that was processed

Returned: success

Sample: [{"hostname": "my-server.com", "id": "2a5122b9-c323-4d5c-b53c-9ad3f54273e7", "locked": false, "private-ipv4": "10.0.15.12", "public_ipv4": "147.229.15.12", "public_ipv6": "2604:1380:2:5200::3", "state": "provisioning", "tags": []}]

Authors

  • Tomas Karasek (@t0mk)

  • Matt Baldwin (@baldwinSPC)

  • Thibaud Morel l’Horset (@teebes)