os_server - Create/Delete Compute Instances from OpenStack

• Synopsis
• Requirements (on host that executes module)
• Options
• Examples
• Notes
  • Status

Synopsis

• Create or Remove compute instances from OpenStack.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

• python >= 2.6
• python >= 2.7
• python-novaclient
• shade

Options

Examples

- name: Create a new instance and attaches to a network and passes metadata to the instance
  os_server:
       state: present
       auth:
         auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/
         username: admin
         password: admin
         project_name: admin
       name: vm1
       image: 4f905f38-e52a-43d2-b6ec-754a13ffb529
       key_name: ansible_key
       timeout: 200
       flavor: 4
       nics:
         - net-id: 34605f38-e52a-25d2-b6ec-754a13ffb723
         - net-name: another_network
       meta:
         hostname: test1
         group: uge_master

# Create a new instance in HP Cloud AE1 region availability zone az2 and
# automatically assigns a floating IP
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        state: present
        auth:
          auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/
          username: username
          password: Equality7-2521
          project_name: username-project1
        name: vm1
        region_name: region-b.geo-1
        availability_zone: az2
        image: 9302692b-b787-4b52-a3a6-daebb79cb498
        key_name: test
        timeout: 200
        flavor: 101
        security_groups: default
        auto_ip: yes

# Create a new instance in named cloud mordred availability zone az2
# and assigns a pre-known floating IP
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        state: present
        cloud: mordred
        name: vm1
        availability_zone: az2
        image: 9302692b-b787-4b52-a3a6-daebb79cb498
        key_name: test
        timeout: 200
        flavor: 101
        floating_ips:
          - 12.34.56.79

# Create a new instance with 4G of RAM on Ubuntu Trusty, ignoring
# deprecated images
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        name: vm1
        state: present
        cloud: mordred
        region_name: region-b.geo-1
        image: Ubuntu Server 14.04
        image_exclude: deprecated
        flavor_ram: 4096

# Create a new instance with 4G of RAM on Ubuntu Trusty on a Performance node
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        name: vm1
        cloud: rax-dfw
        state: present
        image: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) (PVHVM)
        flavor_ram: 4096
        flavor_include: Performance

# Creates a new instance and attaches to multiple network
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance with a string
      os_server:
        auth:
           auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/
           username: admin
           password: admin
           project_name: admin
        name: vm1
        image: 4f905f38-e52a-43d2-b6ec-754a13ffb529
        key_name: ansible_key
        timeout: 200
        flavor: 4
        nics: "net-id=4cb08b20-62fe-11e5-9d70-feff819cdc9f,net-id=542f0430-62fe-11e5-9d70-feff819cdc9f..."

- name: Creates a new instance and attaches to a network and passes metadata to the instance
  os_server:
       state: present
       auth:
         auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/
         username: admin
         password: admin
         project_name: admin
       name: vm1
       image: 4f905f38-e52a-43d2-b6ec-754a13ffb529
       key_name: ansible_key
       timeout: 200
       flavor: 4
       nics:
         - net-id: 34605f38-e52a-25d2-b6ec-754a13ffb723
         - net-name: another_network
       meta: "hostname=test1,group=uge_master"

- name:  Creates a new instance and attaches to a specific network
  os_server:
    state: present
    auth:
      auth_url: https://region-b.geo-1.identity.hpcloudsvc.com:35357/v2.0/
      username: admin
      password: admin
      project_name: admin
    name: vm1
    image: 4f905f38-e52a-43d2-b6ec-754a13ffb529
    key_name: ansible_key
    timeout: 200
    flavor: 4
    network: another_network

# Create a new instance with 4G of RAM on a 75G Ubuntu Trusty volume
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        name: vm1
        state: present
        cloud: mordred
        region_name: ams01
        image: Ubuntu Server 14.04
        flavor_ram: 4096
        boot_from_volume: True
        volume_size: 75

# Creates a new instance with 2 volumes attached
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        name: vm1
        state: present
        cloud: mordred
        region_name: ams01
        image: Ubuntu Server 14.04
        flavor_ram: 4096
        volumes:
        - photos
        - music

# Creates a new instance with provisioning userdata using Cloud-Init
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        name: vm1
        state: present
        image: "Ubuntu Server 14.04"
        flavor: "P-1"
        network: "Production"
        userdata: |
          #cloud-config
          chpasswd:
            list: |
              ubuntu:{{ default_password }}
            expire: False
          packages:
            - ansible
          package_upgrade: true

# Creates a new instance with provisioning userdata using Bash Scripts
- name: launch a compute instance
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - name: launch an instance
      os_server:
        name: vm1
        state: present
        image: "Ubuntu Server 14.04"
        flavor: "P-1"
        network: "Production"
        userdata: |
          {%- raw -%}#!/bin/bash
          echo "  up ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 via {% endraw -%}{{ intra_router }}{%- raw -%}" >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0.conf
          echo "  down ip route del 10.0.0.0/8" >> /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0.conf
          ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0
          {% endraw %}

Notes

Status

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

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