gce_snapshot - Create or destroy snapshots for GCE storage volumes

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Manages snapshots for GCE instances. This module manages snapshots for the storage volumes of a GCE compute instance. If there are multiple volumes, each snapshot will be prepended with the disk name

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • python >= 2.6
  • apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Options

parameter required default choices comments
credentials_file
 yes
The path to the credentials file associated with the service account
disks
 no all
A list of disks to create snapshots for. If none is provided, all of the volumes will be snapshotted
instance_name
 yes
The GCE instance to snapshot
project_id
 yes
The GCP project ID to use
service_account_email
 yes
GCP service account email for the project where the instance resides
snapshot_name
 no
The name of the snapshot to manage
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Whether a snapshot should be present or absent

Examples

- name: Create gce snapshot
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: present
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Delete gce snapshot
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: absent
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

# This example creates snapshots for only two of the available disks as
# disk0-example-snapshot and disk1-example-snapshot
- name: Create snapshots of specific disks
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: example-instance
    snapshot_name: example-snapshot
    state: present
    disks:
      - disk0
      - disk1
    service_account_email: [email protected]
    credentials_file: /path/to/credentials
    project_id: project_name
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
snapshots_absent
List of snapshots that were already absent (no-op)
 When snapshots were already absent list [disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]
snapshots_created
List of newly created snapshots
 When snapshots are created list [disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]
snapshots_deleted
List of destroyed snapshots
 When snapshots are deleted list [disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]
snapshots_existing
List of snapshots that already existed (no-op)
 When snapshots were already present list [disk0-example-snapshot, disk1-example-snapshot]

Status

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

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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