google.cloud.gcp_compute_snapshot – Creates a GCP Snapshot

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Represents a Persistent Disk Snapshot resource.
• Use snapshots to back up data from your persistent disks. Snapshots are different from public images and custom images, which are used primarily to create instances or configure instance templates. Snapshots are useful for periodic backup of the data on your persistent disks. You can create snapshots from persistent disks even while they are attached to running instances.
• Snapshots are incremental, so you can create regular snapshots on a persistent disk faster and at a much lower cost than if you regularly created a full image of the disk.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• requests >= 2.18.4
• google-auth >= 1.3.0

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: create a disk
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_disk:
    name: disk-snapshot
    zone: us-central1-a
    project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
    auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
    service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
    state: present
  register: disk

- name: create a snapshot
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_snapshot:
    name: test_object
    source_disk: "{{ disk }}"
    zone: us-central1-a
    labels:
      my_label: value
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Authors

• Google Inc. (@googlecloudplatform)