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community.general.rax_cdb – create/delete or resize a Rackspace Cloud Databases instance

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.rax_cdb.

Synopsis

  • creates / deletes or resize a Rackspace Cloud Databases instance and optionally waits for it to be ‘running’. The name option needs to be unique since it’s used to identify the instance.

Requirements

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

  • pyrax
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_key
string
Rackspace API key, overrides credentials.

aliases: password
auth_endpoint
string
The URI of the authentication service.
If not specified will be set to https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/
cdb_type
string
Default:
"MySQL"
type of instance (i.e. MySQL, MariaDB, Percona)

aliases: type
cdb_version
string
Default:
5.6
version of database (MySQL supports 5.1 and 5.6, MariaDB supports 10, Percona supports 5.6)
The available choices are: 5.1, 5.6 and 10.

aliases: version
credentials
path
File to find the Rackspace credentials in. Ignored if api_key and username are provided.

aliases: creds_file
env
string
flavor
integer
Default:
1
flavor to use for the instance 1 to 6 (i.e. 512MB to 16GB)
identity_type
string
Default:
"rackspace"
Authentication mechanism to use, such as rackspace or keystone.
name
string / required
Name of the databases server instance
region
string
Region to create an instance in.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Indicate desired state of the resource
tenant_id
string
The tenant ID used for authentication.
tenant_name
string
The tenant name used for authentication.
username
string
Rackspace username, overrides credentials.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether or not to require SSL validation of API endpoints.

aliases: verify_ssl
volume
integer
Default:
2
Volume size of the database 1-150GB
wait
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
wait for the instance to be in state 'running' before returning
wait_timeout
integer
Default:
300
how long before wait gives up, in seconds

Notes

Note

  • The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.
  • RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating
  • RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file
  • RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)
  • The following environment variables can be used, RAX_USERNAME, RAX_API_KEY, RAX_CREDS_FILE, RAX_CREDENTIALS, RAX_REGION.
  • RAX_CREDENTIALS and RAX_CREDS_FILE points to a credentials file appropriate for pyrax. See https://github.com/rackspace/pyrax/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#authenticating
  • RAX_USERNAME and RAX_API_KEY obviate the use of a credentials file
  • RAX_REGION defines a Rackspace Public Cloud region (DFW, ORD, LON, …)

Examples

- name: Build a Cloud Databases
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: Server build request
      local_action:
        module: rax_cdb
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        region: IAD
        name: db-server1
        flavor: 1
        volume: 2
        cdb_type: MySQL
        cdb_version: 5.6
        wait: yes
        state: present
      register: rax_db_server

Authors

  • Simon JAILLET (@jails)

© 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/general/rax_cdb_module.html