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gce_eip - Create or Destroy Global or Regional External IP addresses.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

Requirements (on host that executes module)

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

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name
yes
Name of Address.
region
yes
Region to create the address in. Set to 'global' to create a global address.
state
no present
  • present
  • absent
The state the address should be in. present or absent are the only valid options.

Examples

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

# Create a Regional external IP address
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 Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
region
Which region an address belongs.
always string global
name
name of the address being operated on
always string my-address
address
IP address being operated on
always string 35.186.222.233

Notes

Note

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

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/gce_eip_module.html