community.general.ali_instance – Create, Start, Stop, Restart or Terminate an Instance in ECS. Add or Remove Instance to/from a Security Group.
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ali_instance.
Synopsis
- Create, start, stop, restart, modify or terminate ecs instances.
- Add or remove ecs instances to/from security group.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- footmark >= 1.19.0
- python >= 3.6
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| alicloud_access_key  string  | Alibaba Cloud access key. If not set then the value of environment variable  ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY,ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_IDwill be used instead.aliases: access_key_id, access_key | |
| alicloud_assume_role  dictionary  | If provided with a role ARN, Ansible will attempt to assume this role using the supplied credentials. The nested assume_role block supports alicloud_assume_role_arn, alicloud_assume_role_session_name, alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration and alicloud_assume_role_policy
 aliases: assume_role | |
| alicloud_assume_role_arn  string  | The Alibaba Cloud role_arn. The ARN of the role to assume. If ARN is set to an empty string, it does not perform role switching. It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN. ansible will execute with provided credentials. aliases: assume_role_arn | |
| alicloud_assume_role_session_expiration  integer  | The Alibaba Cloud session_expiration. The time after which the established session for assuming role expires. Valid value range 900-3600 seconds. Default to 3600 (in this case Alicloud use own default value). It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION aliases: assume_role_session_expiration | |
| alicloud_assume_role_session_name  string  | The Alibaba Cloud session_name. The session name to use when assuming the role. If omitted, 'ansible' is passed to the AssumeRole call as session name. It supports environment variable ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME aliases: assume_role_session_name | |
| alicloud_region  string / required  | The Alibaba Cloud region to use. If not specified then the value of environment variable  ALICLOUD_REGION,ALICLOUD_REGION_IDwill be used instead.aliases: region, region_id | |
| alicloud_secret_key  string  | Alibaba Cloud secret key. If not set then the value of environment variable  ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY,ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEYwill be used instead.aliases: secret_access_key, secret_key | |
| alicloud_security_token  string  | The Alibaba Cloud security token. If not specified then the value of environment variable  ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKENwill be used instead.aliases: security_token | |
| allocate_public_ip  boolean  | 
 | Whether allocate a public ip for the new instance. aliases: assign_public_ip | 
| auto_renew  boolean  | 
 | Whether automate renew the charge of the instance. | 
| auto_renew_period  integer  | 
 | The duration of the automatic renew the charge of the instance. Required when  auto_renew=True. | 
| availability_zone  string  | Aliyun availability zone ID in which to launch the instance. If it is not specified, it will be allocated by system automatically. aliases: alicloud_zone, zone_id | |
| count  integer  | Default: 1 | The number of the new instance. An integer value which indicates how many instances that match count_tag should be running. Instances are either created or terminated based on this value. | 
| count_tag  string  | 
count determines how many instances based on a specific tag criteria should be present. This can be expressed in multiple ways and is shown in the EXAMPLES section. The specified count_tag must already exist or be passed in as the tags option. If it is not specified, it will be replaced by instance_name. | |
| description  string  | The description of ECS instance, which is a string of 2 to 256 characters. It cannot begin with http:// or https://. | |
| dry_run  boolean   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | 
 | Specifies whether to send a dry-run request. If dry_run=True, Only a dry-run request is sent and no instance is created. The system checks whether the required parameters are set, and validates the request format, service permissions, and available ECS instances. If the validation fails, the corresponding error code is returned. If the validation succeeds, the DryRunOperation error code is returned. If dry_run=False, A request is sent. If the validation succeeds, the instance is created. | 
| ecs_role_name  string  | The RAM Role Name attached on a ECS instance for API operations. You can retrieve this from the 'Access Control' section of the Alibaba Cloud console. If you're running Ansible from an ECS instance with RAM Instance using RAM Role, Ansible will just access the metadata http://100.100.100.200/latest/meta-data/ram/security-credentials/<ecs_role_name> to obtain the STS credential. This is a preferred approach over any other when running in ECS as you can avoid hard coding credentials. Instead these are leased on-the-fly by Ansible which reduces the chance of leakage. aliases: role_name | |
| force  boolean  | 
 | Whether the current operation needs to be execute forcibly. | 
| host_name  string  | Instance host name. Ordered hostname is not supported. | |
| image_id  string  | Image ID used to launch instances. Required when  state=presentand creating new ECS instances.aliases: image | |
| include_data_disks  boolean   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | 
 | Whether to change instance disks charge type when changing instance charge type. | 
| instance_charge_type  string  | 
 | The charge type of the instance. | 
| instance_ids  list / elements=string  | A list of instance ids. It is required when need to operate existing instances. If it is specified, count will lose efficacy. | |
| instance_name  string  | The name of ECS instance, which is a string of 2 to 128 Chinese or English characters. It must begin with an uppercase/lowercase letter or a Chinese character and can contain numerals, ".", "_" or "-". It cannot begin with http:// or https://. aliases: name | |
| instance_type  string  | Instance type used to launch instances. Required when  state=presentand creating new ECS instances.aliases: type | |
| internet_charge_type  string  | 
 | Internet charge type of ECS instance. | 
| key_name  string  | The name of key pair which is used to access ECS instance in SSH. aliases: keypair | |
| max_bandwidth_in  integer  | Default: 200 | Maximum incoming bandwidth from the public network, measured in Mbps (Megabits per second). | 
| max_bandwidth_out  integer  | Default: 0 | Maximum outgoing bandwidth to the public network, measured in Mbps (Megabits per second). Required when  allocate_public_ip=True. Ignored whenallocate_public_ip=False. | 
| password  string  | The password to login instance. After rebooting instances, modified password will take effect. | |
| period  integer  | Default: 1 | The charge duration of the instance, in month. Required when  instance_charge_type=PrePaid.The valid value are [1-9, 12, 24, 36]. | 
| period_unit  string   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | 
 | The duration unit that you will buy the resource. It is valid when  instance_charge_type=PrePaid | 
| profile  string  | This is the Alicloud profile name as set in the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the ALICLOUD_PROFILE environment variable. | |
| purge_tags  boolean   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | 
 | Delete any tags not specified in the task that are on the instance. If True, it means you have to specify all the desired tags on each task affecting an instance. | 
| ram_role_name  string   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | The name of the instance RAM role. | |
| security_groups  list / elements=string  | A list of security group IDs. aliases: group_ids | |
| shared_credentials_file  string  | This is the path to the shared credentials file. It can also be sourced from the ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE environment variable. If this is not set and a profile is specified, ~/.aliyun/config.json will be used. | |
| spot_price_limit  float   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | The maximum hourly price for the preemptible instance. This parameter supports a maximum of three decimal places and takes effect when the SpotStrategy parameter is set to SpotWithPriceLimit. | |
| spot_strategy  string   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | 
 | The bidding mode of the pay-as-you-go instance. This parameter is valid when InstanceChargeType is set to PostPaid. | 
| state  string  | 
 | The state of the instance after operating. | 
| system_disk_category  string  | 
 | Category of the system disk. | 
| system_disk_description  string  | Description of the system disk. | |
| system_disk_name  string  | Name of the system disk. | |
| system_disk_size  integer  | Default: 40 | Size of the system disk, in GB. The valid values are 40~500. | 
| tags  dictionary   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | A hash/dictionaries of instance tags, to add to the new instance or for starting/stopping instance by tag.  {"key":"value"}aliases: instance_tags | |
| unique_suffix  boolean   added in 0.2.0 of community.general  | 
 | Specifies whether to add sequential suffixes to the host_name. The sequential suffix ranges from 001 to 999. | 
| user_data  string  | User-defined data to customize the startup behaviors of an ECS instance and to pass data into an ECS instance. It only will take effect when launching the new ECS instances. | |
| vswitch_id  string  | The subnet ID in which to launch the instances (VPC). aliases: subnet_id | 
Notes
Note
- If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEYorALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID,ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEYorALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,ALICLOUD_REGIONorALICLOUD_REGION_ID,ALICLOUD_SECURITY_TOKEN,ALICLOUD_ECS_ROLE_NAME,ALICLOUD_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE,ALICLOUD_PROFILE,ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_ARN,ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_NAME,ALICLOUD_ASSUME_ROLE_SESSION_EXPIRATION,
- 
ALICLOUD_REGIONorALICLOUD_REGION_IDcan be typically be used to specify the ALICLOUD region, when required, but this can also be configured in the footmark config file
Examples
# basic provisioning example vpc network
- name: Basic provisioning example
  hosts: localhost
  vars:
    alicloud_access_key: <your-alicloud-access-key-id>
    alicloud_secret_key: <your-alicloud-access-secret-key>
    alicloud_region: cn-beijing
    image: ubuntu1404_64_40G_cloudinit_20160727.raw
    instance_type: ecs.n4.small
    vswitch_id: vsw-abcd1234
    assign_public_ip: True
    max_bandwidth_out: 10
    host_name: myhost
    password: mypassword
    system_disk_category: cloud_efficiency
    system_disk_size: 100
    internet_charge_type: PayByBandwidth
    security_groups: ["sg-f2rwnfh23r"]
    instance_ids: ["i-abcd12346", "i-abcd12345"]
    force: True
  tasks:
    - name: Launch ECS instance in VPC network
      community.general.ali_instance:
        alicloud_access_key: '{{ alicloud_access_key }}'
        alicloud_secret_key: '{{ alicloud_secret_key }}'
        alicloud_region: '{{ alicloud_region }}'
        image: '{{ image }}'
        system_disk_category: '{{ system_disk_category }}'
        system_disk_size: '{{ system_disk_size }}'
        instance_type: '{{ instance_type }}'
        vswitch_id: '{{ vswitch_id }}'
        assign_public_ip: '{{ assign_public_ip }}'
        internet_charge_type: '{{ internet_charge_type }}'
        max_bandwidth_out: '{{ max_bandwidth_out }}'
        tags:
            Name: created_one
        host_name: '{{ host_name }}'
        password: '{{ password }}'
    - name: With count and count_tag to create a number of instances
      community.general.ali_instance:
        alicloud_access_key: '{{ alicloud_access_key }}'
        alicloud_secret_key: '{{ alicloud_secret_key }}'
        alicloud_region: '{{ alicloud_region }}'
        image: '{{ image }}'
        system_disk_category: '{{ system_disk_category }}'
        system_disk_size: '{{ system_disk_size }}'
        instance_type: '{{ instance_type }}'
        assign_public_ip: '{{ assign_public_ip }}'
        security_groups: '{{ security_groups }}'
        internet_charge_type: '{{ internet_charge_type }}'
        max_bandwidth_out: '{{ max_bandwidth_out }}'
        tags:
            Name: created_one
            Version: 0.1
        count: 2
        count_tag:
            Name: created_one
        host_name: '{{ host_name }}'
        password: '{{ password }}'
    - name: Start instance
      community.general.ali_instance:
        alicloud_access_key: '{{ alicloud_access_key }}'
        alicloud_secret_key: '{{ alicloud_secret_key }}'
        alicloud_region: '{{ alicloud_region }}'
        instance_ids: '{{ instance_ids }}'
        state: 'running'
    - name: Reboot instance forcibly
      ecs:
        alicloud_access_key: '{{ alicloud_access_key }}'
        alicloud_secret_key: '{{ alicloud_secret_key }}'
        alicloud_region: '{{ alicloud_region }}'
        instance_ids: '{{ instance_ids }}'
        state: 'restarted'
        force: '{{ force }}'
    - name: Add instances to an security group
      ecs:
        alicloud_access_key: '{{ alicloud_access_key }}'
        alicloud_secret_key: '{{ alicloud_secret_key }}'
        alicloud_region: '{{ alicloud_region }}'
        instance_ids: '{{ instance_ids }}'
        security_groups: '{{ security_groups }}'
   Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ids  list / elements=string  | always | List of ECS instance IDs Sample: ['i-12345er', 'i-3245fs'] | ||
| instances  complex  | always | List of ECS instances | ||
| availability_zone  string  | always | The availability zone of the instance is in. Sample: cn-beijing-a | ||
| block_device_mappings  complex  | always | Any block device mapping entries for the instance. | ||
| attach_time  string  | always | The time stamp when the attachment initiated. Sample: 2018-06-25T04:08:26Z | ||
| delete_on_termination  boolean  | always | Indicates whether the volume is deleted on instance termination. Sample: True | ||
| device_name  string  | always | The device name exposed to the instance (for example, /dev/xvda). Sample: /dev/xvda | ||
| status  string  | always | The attachment state. Sample: in_use | ||
| volume_id  string  | always | The ID of the cloud disk. Sample: d-2zei53pjsi117y6gf9t6 | ||
| cpu  integer  | always | The CPU core count of the instance. Sample: 4 | ||
| creation_time  string  | always | The time the instance was created. Sample: 2018-06-25T04:08Z | ||
| description  string  | always | The instance description. Sample: my ansible instance | ||
| eip  complex  | always | The attribution of EIP associated with the instance. | ||
| allocation_id  string  | always | The ID of the EIP. Sample: eip-12345 | ||
| internet_charge_type  string  | always | The internet charge type of the EIP. Sample: paybybandwidth | ||
| ip_address  string  | always | EIP address. Sample: 42.10.2.2 | ||
| expired_time  string  | always | The time the instance will expire. Sample: 2099-12-31T15:59Z | ||
| gpu  complex  | always | The attribution of instance GPU. | ||
| amount  integer  | always | The count of the GPU. | ||
| spec  string  | always | The specification of the GPU. | ||
| host_name  string  | always | The host name of the instance. Sample: iZ2zewaoZ | ||
| id  string  | always | Alias of instance_id. Sample: i-abc12345 | ||
| image_id  string  | always | The ID of the image used to launch the instance. Sample: m-0011223344 | ||
| inner_ip_address  string  | always | The inner IPv4 address of the classic instance. Sample: 10.0.0.2 | ||
| instance_charge_type  string  | always | The instance charge type. Sample: PostPaid | ||
| instance_id  string  | always | ECS instance resource ID. Sample: i-abc12345 | ||
| instance_name  string  | always | The name of the instance. Sample: my-ecs | ||
| instance_type  string  | always | The instance type of the running instance. Sample: ecs.sn1ne.xlarge | ||
| instance_type_family  string  | always | The instance type family of the instance belongs. Sample: ecs.sn1ne | ||
| internet_charge_type  string  | always | The billing method of the network bandwidth. Sample: PayByBandwidth | ||
| internet_max_bandwidth_in  integer  | always | Maximum incoming bandwidth from the internet network. Sample: 200 | ||
| internet_max_bandwidth_out  integer  | always | Maximum incoming bandwidth from the internet network. Sample: 20 | ||
| io_optimized  boolean  | always | Indicates whether the instance is optimized for EBS I/O. | ||
| memory  integer  | always | Memory size of the instance. Sample: 8192 | ||
| network_interfaces  complex  | always | One or more network interfaces for the instance. | ||
| mac_address  string  | always | The MAC address. Sample: 00:11:22:33:44:55 | ||
| network_interface_id  string  | always | The ID of the network interface. Sample: eni-01234567 | ||
| primary_ip_address  string  | always | The primary IPv4 address of the network interface within the vswitch. Sample: 10.0.0.1 | ||
| osname  string  | always | The operation system name of the instance owned. Sample: CentOS | ||
| ostype  string  | always | The operation system type of the instance owned. Sample: linux | ||
| private_ip_address  string  | always | The IPv4 address of the network interface within the subnet. Sample: 10.0.0.1 | ||
| public_ip_address  string  | always | The public IPv4 address assigned to the instance or eip address Sample: 43.0.0.1 | ||
| resource_group_id  string  | always | The id of the resource group to which the instance belongs. Sample: my-ecs-group | ||
| security_groups  list / elements=dictionary  | always | One or more security groups for the instance. | ||
| group_id  string  | always | The ID of the security group. Sample: sg-0123456 | ||
| group_name  string  | always | The name of the security group. Sample: my-security-group | ||
| spot_price_limit  float  | always | The maximum hourly price for the preemptible instance. Sample: 0.97 | ||
| spot_strategy  string  | always | The bidding mode of the pay-as-you-go instance. Sample: NoSpot | ||
| status  string  | always | The current status of the instance. Sample: running | ||
| tags  dictionary  | always | Any tags assigned to the instance. | ||
| user_data  dictionary  | always | User-defined data. | ||
| vpc_id  string  | always | The ID of the VPC the instance is in. Sample: vpc-0011223344 | ||
| vswitch_id  string  | always | The ID of the vswitch in which the instance is running. Sample: vsw-dew00abcdef | ||
Authors
- He Guimin (@xiaozhu36)
    © 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/general/ali_instance_module.html