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gcdns_zone - Creates or removes zones in Google Cloud DNS

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • Creates or removes managed zones in Google Cloud DNS.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

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

Options

parameter required default choices comments
credentials_file
 no
The path to the JSON file associated with the service account email.
description
 no
An arbitrary text string to use for the zone description.
pem_file
 no
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
 no
The Google Cloud Platform project ID to use.
service_account_email
 no
The e-mail address for a service account with access to Google Cloud DNS.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Whether the given zone should or should not be present.
zone
 yes
The DNS domain name of the zone.
This is NOT the Google Cloud DNS zone ID (e.g., example-com). If you attempt to specify a zone ID, this module will attempt to create a TLD and will fail.
aliases: name

Examples

# Basic zone creation example.
- name: Create a basic zone with the minimum number of parameters.
  gcdns_zone: zone=example.com

# Zone removal example.
- name: Remove a zone.
  gcdns_zone: zone=example.com state=absent

# Zone creation with description
- name: Creating a zone with a description
  gcdns_zone: zone=example.com description="This is an awesome zone"

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
state
Whether the zone is present or absent
 success string present
description
The zone's description
 success string This is an awesome zone
zone
The zone's DNS name
 success string example.com.

Notes

Note

  • See also gcdns_record.
  • Zones that are newly created must still be set up with a domain registrar before they can be used.

Status

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

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/gcdns_zone_module.html