packet_device – Manage a bare metal server in the Packet Host

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

Synopsis

• Manage a bare metal server in the Packet Host (a “device” in the API terms).
• When the machine is created it can optionally wait for public IP address, or for active state.
• This module has a dependency on packet >= 1.0.
• API is documented at https://www.packet.net/developers/api/devices.

Requirements

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

• packet-python >= 1.35

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# All the examples assume that you have your Packet api token in env var PACKET_API_TOKEN.
# You can also pass it to the auth_token parameter of the module instead.

# Creating devices

- name: create 1 device
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      hostnames: myserver
      operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: sjc1

# Create the same device and wait until it is in state "active", (when it's
# ready for other API operations). Fail if the devices in not "active" in
# 10 minutes.

- name: create device and wait up to 10 minutes for active state
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      hostnames: myserver
      operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: sjc1
      state: active
      wait_timeout: 600

- name: create 3 ubuntu devices called server-01, server-02 and server-03
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      hostnames: server-%02d
      count: 3
      operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: sjc1

- name: Create 3 coreos devices with userdata, wait until they get IPs and then wait for SSH
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: create 3 devices and register their facts
    packet_device:
      hostnames: [coreos-one, coreos-two, coreos-three]
      operating_system: coreos_stable
      plan: baremetal_0
      facility: ewr1
      locked: true
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      wait_for_public_IPv: 4
      user_data: |
        #cloud-config
        ssh_authorized_keys:
          - {{ lookup('file', 'my_packet_sshkey') }}
        coreos:
          etcd:
            discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/6a28e078895c5ec737174db2419bb2f3
            addr: $private_ipv4:4001
            peer-addr: $private_ipv4:7001
          fleet:
            public-ip: $private_ipv4
          units:
            - name: etcd.service
              command: start
            - name: fleet.service
              command: start
    register: newhosts

  - name: wait for ssh
    wait_for:
      delay: 1
      host: "{{ item.public_ipv4 }}"
      port: 22
      state: started
      timeout: 500
    with_items: "{{ newhosts.devices }}"


# Other states of devices

- name: remove 3 devices by uuid
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - packet_device:
      project_id: 89b497ee-5afc-420a-8fb5-56984898f4df
      state: absent
      device_ids:
        - 1fb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c30d8
        - 2eb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c3043
        - 6bb4faf8-a638-4ac7-8f47-86fe514c301f

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Tomas Karasek (@t0mk) <tom.to.the.k@gmail.com>
• Matt Baldwin (@baldwinSPC) <baldwin@stackpointcloud.com>
• Thibaud Morel l’Horset (@teebes) <teebes@gmail.com>