gcdns_zone - Creates or removes zones in Google Cloud DNS¶

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis
Requirements (on host that executes module)
Options
Examples
Return Values
Notes
- Status
- Support

Synopsis ¶

Creates or removes managed zones in Google Cloud DNS.

Requirements (on host that executes module)¶

python >= 2.6

apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Options ¶

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
credentials_file	no			The path to the JSON file associated with the service account email.
description	no			An arbitrary text string to use for the zone description.
pem_file	no			The path to the PEM file associated with the service account email. This option is deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Use credentials_file instead.
project_id	no			The Google Cloud Platform project ID to use.
service_account_email	no			The e-mail address for a service account with access to Google Cloud DNS.
state	no	present	present absent	Whether the given zone should or should not be present.
zone	yes			The DNS domain name of the zone. This is NOT the Google Cloud DNS zone ID (e.g., example-com). If you attempt to specify a zone ID, this module will attempt to create a TLD and will fail. aliases: name

Examples ¶

# Basic zone creation example.
- name: Create a basic zone with the minimum number of parameters.
  gcdns_zone: zone=example.com

# Zone removal example.
- name: Remove a zone.
  gcdns_zone: zone=example.com state=absent

# Zone creation with description
- name: Creating a zone with a description
  gcdns_zone: zone=example.com description="This is an awesome zone"

Return Values ¶

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

name	description	returned	type	sample
state	Whether the zone is present or absent	success	string	present
description	The zone's description	success	string	This is an awesome zone
zone	The zone's DNS name	success	string	example.com.

Notes ¶

Note

See also gcdns_record.
Zones that are newly created must still be set up with a domain registrar before they can be used.

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Support ¶

This module is community maintained without core committer oversight.

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