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community.google.gce_eip – Create or Destroy Global or Regional External IP addresses.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.google collection (version 1.0.0).

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.google.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.google.gce_eip.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6
  • apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
credentials_file
path
The path to the JSON file associated with the service account email.
name
string / required
Name of Address.
pem_file
path
The path to the PEM file associated with the service account email.
This option is deprecated and may be removed in a future release. Use credentials_file instead.
project_id
string
The Google Cloud Platform project ID to use.
region
string / required
Region to create the address in. Set to 'global' to create a global address.
service_account_email
string
service account email
service_account_permissions
list / elements=string
service account permissions
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
The state the address should be in. present or absent are the only valid options.

Notes

Note

  • Global addresses can only be used with Global Forwarding Rules.

Examples

- name: Create a Global external IP address
  community.google.gce_eip:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    name: my-global-ip
    region: global
    state: present

- name: Create a Regional external IP address
  community.google.gce_eip:
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    name: my-global-ip
    region: us-east1
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
address
string
always
IP address being operated on

Sample:
35.186.222.233
name
string
always
name of the address being operated on

Sample:
my-address
region
string
always
Which region an address belongs.

Sample:
global


Authors

© 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/google/gce_eip_module.html