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community.google.gce_img – utilize GCE image resources

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_img.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6
  • apache-libcloud

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
string
an optional description
family
string
an optional family name
name
string / required
the name of the image to create or delete
pem_file
path
path to the pem file associated with the service account email
project_id
string
your GCE project ID
service_account_email
string
service account email
source
string
the source disk or the Google Cloud Storage URI to create the image from
state
string
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
desired state of the image
timeout
integer
Default:
180
timeout for the operation
zone
string
Default:
"us-central1-a"
the zone of the disk specified by source

Examples

- name: Create an image named test-image from the disk 'test-disk' in zone us-central1-a
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: test-disk
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

- name: Create an image named test-image from a tarball in Google Cloud Storage
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: https://storage.googleapis.com/bucket/path/to/image.tgz

- name: Alternatively use the gs scheme
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    source: gs://bucket/path/to/image.tgz

- name: Delete an image named test-image
  community.google.gce_img:
    name: test-image
    state: absent

Authors

  • Tom Melendez (@supertom)

© 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_img_module.html