rax_keypair – Create a keypair for use with Rackspace Cloud Servers

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

Synopsis

• Create a keypair for use with Rackspace Cloud Servers

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• pyrax

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Create a keypair
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: keypair request
      local_action:
        module: rax_keypair
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        name: my_keypair
        region: DFW
      register: keypair
    - name: Create local public key
      local_action:
        module: copy
        content: "{{ keypair.keypair.public_key }}"
        dest: "{{ inventory_dir }}/{{ keypair.keypair.name }}.pub"
    - name: Create local private key
      local_action:
        module: copy
        content: "{{ keypair.keypair.private_key }}"
        dest: "{{ inventory_dir }}/{{ keypair.keypair.name }}"

- name: Create a keypair
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: keypair request
      local_action:
        module: rax_keypair
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        name: my_keypair
        public_key: "{{ lookup('file', 'authorized_keys/id_rsa.pub') }}"
        region: DFW
      register: keypair

Status

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

Authors

• Matt Martz (@sivel)