community.general.clc_group – Create/delete Server Groups at Centurylink Cloud

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.clc_group.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Create or delete Server Groups at Centurylink Centurylink Cloud

Requirements

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

python = 2.7
requests >= 2.5.0
clc-sdk

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
description string		A description of the Server Group
location string		Datacenter to create the group in. If location is not provided, the group gets created in the default datacenter associated with the account
name string / required		The name of the Server Group
parent string		The parent group of the server group. If parent is not provided, it creates the group at top level.
state string	present ← absent	Whether to create or delete the group
wait boolean	no yes ←	Whether to wait for the tasks to finish before returning.

Notes

Note

To use this module, it is required to set the below environment variables which enables access to the Centurylink Cloud - CLC_V2_API_USERNAME, the account login id for the centurylink cloud - CLC_V2_API_PASSWORD, the account password for the centurylink cloud
Alternatively, the module accepts the API token and account alias. The API token can be generated using the CLC account login and password via the HTTP api call @ https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_V2_API_TOKEN, the API token generated from https://api.ctl.io/v2/authentication/login - CLC_ACCT_ALIAS, the account alias associated with the centurylink cloud
Users can set CLC_V2_API_URL to specify an endpoint for pointing to a different CLC environment.

Examples

# Create a Server Group

---
- name: Create Server Group
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Create / Verify a Server Group at CenturyLink Cloud
      community.general.clc_group:
        name: My Cool Server Group
        parent: Default Group
        state: present
      register: clc

    - name: Debug
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        var: clc

# Delete a Server Group
- name: Delete Server Group
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Delete / Verify Absent a Server Group at CenturyLink Cloud
      community.general.clc_group:
        name: My Cool Server Group
        parent: Default Group
        state: absent
      register: clc

    - name: Debug
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        var: clc

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
group dictionary	success	The group information Sample: {'changeInfo': {'createdBy': 'service.wfad', 'createdDate': '2015-07-29T18:52:47Z', 'modifiedBy': 'service.wfad', 'modifiedDate': '2015-07-29T18:52:47Z'}, 'customFields': [], 'description': 'test group', 'groups': [], 'id': 'bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1', 'links': [{'href': '/v2/groups/wfad', 'rel': 'createGroup', 'verbs': ['POST']}, {'href': '/v2/servers/wfad', 'rel': 'createServer', 'verbs': ['POST']}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1', 'rel': 'self', 'verbs': ['GET', 'PATCH', 'DELETE']}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/086ac1dfe0b6411989e8d1b77c4065f0', 'id': '086ac1dfe0b6411989e8d1b77c4065f0', 'rel': 'parentGroup'}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/defaults', 'rel': 'defaults', 'verbs': ['GET', 'POST']}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/billing', 'rel': 'billing'}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/archive', 'rel': 'archiveGroupAction'}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/statistics', 'rel': 'statistics'}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/upcomingScheduledActivities', 'rel': 'upcomingScheduledActivities'}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/horizontalAutoscalePolicy', 'rel': 'horizontalAutoscalePolicyMapping', 'verbs': ['GET', 'PUT', 'DELETE']}, {'href': '/v2/groups/wfad/bb5f12a3c6044ae4ad0a03e73ae12cd1/scheduledActivities', 'rel': 'scheduledActivities', 'verbs': ['GET', 'POST']}], 'locationId': 'UC1', 'name': 'test group', 'status': 'active', 'type': 'default'}

Authors

CLC Runner (@clc-runner)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/clc_group_module.html