community.google.gce_pd – utilize GCE persistent disk resources

Note

This plugin is part of the community.google collection (version 1.0.0).

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.google.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.google.gce_pd.

Synopsis

  • This module can create and destroy unformatted GCE persistent disks https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/disks#persistentdisks. It also supports attaching and detaching disks from running instances. Full install/configuration instructions for the gce* modules can be found in the comments of ansible/test/gce_tests.py.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6
  • apache-libcloud >= 0.13.3, >= 0.17.0 if using JSON credentials

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
credentials_file
path
path to the JSON file associated with the service account email
delete_on_termination
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If yes, deletes the volume when instance is terminated
detach_only
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
do not destroy the disk, merely detach it from an instance
disk_type
string
Default:
"pd-standard"
Specify a pd-standard disk or pd-ssd for an SSD disk.
external_projects
list / elements=string
A list of other projects (accessible with the provisioning credentials) to be searched for the image.
image
string
the source image to use for the disk
image_family
string
The image family to use to create the instance. If image has been used image_family is ignored. Cannot specify both image and source.
instance_name
string
instance name if you wish to attach or detach the disk
mode
string
    Choices:
  • READ_WRITE
  • READ_ONLY ←
GCE mount mode of disk, READ_ONLY (default) or READ_WRITE
name
string / required
name of the disk
pem_file
path
path to the pem file associated with the service account email This option is deprecated. Use 'credentials_file'.
project_id
string
your GCE project ID
service_account_email
string
service account email
size_gb
string
Default:
"10"
whole integer size of disk (in GB) to create, default is 10 GB
snapshot
string
the source snapshot to use for the disk
state
string
Default:
"present"
desired state of the persistent disk
Available choices are: active, present, absent, deleted.
zone
string
Default:
"us-central1-b"
zone in which to create the disk

Examples

- name: Simple attachment action to an existing instance
  local_action:
    module: gce_pd
    instance_name: notlocalhost
    size_gb: 5
    name: pd

Authors

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/google/gce_pd_module.html