gcp_compute_instance_group_facts - Gather facts for GCP InstanceGroup¶

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

Gather facts for GCP InstanceGroup

Requirements ¶

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

python >= 2.6
requests >= 2.18.4
google-auth >= 1.3.0

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_kind required	Choices: machineaccount serviceaccount application	The type of credential used.
filters		A list of filter value pairs. Available filters are listed here https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/topic/filters. Each additional filter in the list will act be added as an AND condition (filter1 and filter2)
project	Default: None	The Google Cloud Platform project to use.
scopes		Array of scopes to be used.
service_account_email		An optional service account email address if machineaccount is selected and the user does not wish to use the default email.
service_account_file		The path of a Service Account JSON file if serviceaccount is selected as type.
zone required		A reference to the zone where the instance group resides.

Notes ¶

Note

For authentication, you can set service_account_file using the GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE env variable.
For authentication, you can set service_account_email using the GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL env variable.
For authentication, you can set auth_kind using the GCP_AUTH_KIND env variable.
For authentication, you can set scopes using the GCP_SCOPES env variable.
Environment variables values will only be used if the playbook values are not set.
The service_account_email and service_account_file options are mutually exclusive.

Examples ¶

- name:  a instance group facts
  gcp_compute_instance_group_facts:
      zone: us-central1-a
      filters:
      - name = test_object
      project: test_project
      auth_kind: service_account
      service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"

Return Values ¶

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

Key			Returned	Description
items complex			always	List of items
	network dict		success	The network to which all instances in the instance group belong.
	zone str		success	A reference to the zone where the instance group resides.
	region str		success	The region where the instance group is located (for regional resources).
	description str		success	An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.
	named_ports complex		success	Assigns a name to a port number. For example: {name: "http", port: 80}. This allows the system to reference ports by the assigned name instead of a port number. Named ports can also contain multiple ports. For example: [{name: "http", port: 80},{name: "http", port: 8080}] Named ports apply to all instances in this instance group.
		name str	success	The name for this named port. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035.
		port int	success	The port number, which can be a value between 1 and 65535.
	subnetwork dict		success	The subnetwork to which all instances in the instance group belong.
	creation_timestamp str		success	Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
	id int		success	A unique identifier for this instance group.
	name str		success	The name of the instance group. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035.

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author ¶

Google Inc. (@googlecloudplatform)

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