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community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot – Create and delete DigitalOcean snapshots

Note

This plugin is part of the community.digitalocean collection (version 1.11.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.digitalocean.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot.

New in version 1.7.0: of community.digitalocean

Synopsis

  • This module can be used to create and delete DigitalOcean Droplet and volume snapshots.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
droplet_id
string
Droplet ID to snapshot.
oauth_token
string
DigitalOcean OAuth token.
There are several other environment variables which can be used to provide this value.
i.e., - 'DO_API_TOKEN', 'DO_API_KEY', 'DO_OAUTH_TOKEN' and 'OAUTH_TOKEN'

aliases: api_token
snapshot_id
string
Snapshot ID to delete.
snapshot_name
string
Name of the snapshot to create.
snapshot_tags
list / elements=string
List of tags to apply to the volume snapshot.
Only applies to volume snapshots (not Droplets).
snapshot_type
string
    Choices:
  • droplet ←
  • volume
Specifies the type of snapshot information to be create or delete.
If set to droplet, then a Droplet snapshot is created.
If set to volume, then a volume snapshot is created.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Whether the snapshot should be present (created) or absent (deleted).
timeout
integer
Default:
30
The timeout in seconds used for polling DigitalOcean's API.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
volume_id
string
Volume ID to snapshot.
wait
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Wait for the snapshot to be created before returning.
wait_timeout
integer
Default:
120
How long before wait gives up, in seconds, when creating a snapshot.

Examples

- name: Snapshot a Droplet
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot:
    state: present
    snapshot_type: droplet
    droplet_id: 250329179
  register: result

- name: Delete a Droplet snapshot
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot:
    state: absent
    snapshot_type: droplet
    snapshot_id: 85905825
  register: result

- name: Snapshot a Volume
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot:
    state: present
    snapshot_type: volume
    snapshot_name: mysnapshot1
    volume_id: 9db5e329-cc68-11eb-b027-0a58ac144f91

- name: Delete a Volume snapshot
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot:
    state: absent
    snapshot_type: volume
    snapshot_id: a902cdba-cc68-11eb-a701-0a58ac145708

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
data
dictionary
success
Snapshot creation or deletion action.

Sample:
[{'completed_at': '2021-06-14T12:36:00Z', 'id': 1229119156, 'region': {'available': True, 'features': ['backups', 'ipv6', 'metadata', 'install_agent', 'storage', 'image_transfer'], 'name': 'New York 1', 'sizes': ['s-1vcpu-1gb', 's-1vcpu-1gb-amd', 's-1vcpu-1gb-intel', '<snip>'], 'slug': 'nyc1'}, 'region_slug': 'nyc1', 'resource_id': 250445117, 'resource_type': 'droplet', 'started_at': '2021-06-14T12:35:25Z', 'status': 'completed', 'type': 'snapshot'}, {'created_at': '2021-06-14T12:55:10Z', 'id': 'c06d4a86-cd0f-11eb-b13c-0a58ac145472', 'min_disk_size': 1, 'name': 'my-snapshot-1', 'regions': ['nbg1'], 'resource_id': 'f0adea7e-cd0d-11eb-b027-0a58ac144f91', 'resource_type': 'volume', 'size_gigabytes': 0, 'tags': ['tag1', 'tag2']}]


Authors

  • Mark Mercado (@mamercad)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/digitalocean/digital_ocean_snapshot_module.html