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profitbricks - Create, destroy, start, stop, and reboot a ProfitBricks virtual machine.
New in version 2.0.
Synopsis
- Create, destroy, update, start, stop, and reboot a ProfitBricks virtual machine. When the virtual machine is created it can optionally wait for it to be ‘running’ before returning. This module has a dependency on profitbricks >= 1.0.0
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- profitbricks
 - python >= 2.6
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| assign_public_ip  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        This will assign the machine to the public LAN. If no LAN exists with public Internet access it is created.
         | 
     
| auto_increment  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Whether or not to increment a single number in the name for created virtual machines.
         | 
     
| bus | 
       
  | 
      
        
        The bus type for the volume.
         | 
     
| cores | Default: 
        2
         | 
      
        
        The number of CPU cores to allocate to the virtual machine.
         | 
     
| count | Default: 
        1
         | 
      
        
        The number of virtual machines to create.
         | 
     
| cpu_family  
        (added in 2.2)
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        The CPU family type to allocate to the virtual machine.
         | 
     
| datacenter | 
        
        The datacenter to provision this virtual machine.
         | 
     |
| image  
        required
         | 
      
        
        The system image ID for creating the virtual machine, e.g. a3eae284-a2fe-11e4-b187-5f1f641608c8.
         | 
     |
| image_password  
        (added in 2.2)
         | 
      
        
        Password set for the administrative user.
         | 
     |
| instance_ids | 
        
        list of instance ids, currently only used when state='absent' to remove instances.
         | 
     |
| lan | Default: 
        1
         | 
      
        
        The ID of the LAN you wish to add the servers to.
         | 
     
| location | 
       
  | 
      
        
        The datacenter location. Use only if you want to create the Datacenter or else this value is ignored.
         | 
     
| name  
        required
         | 
      
        
        The name of the virtual machine.
         | 
     |
| ram | Default: 
        2048
         | 
      
        
        The amount of memory to allocate to the virtual machine.
         | 
     
| remove_boot_volume  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        remove the bootVolume of the virtual machine you're destroying.
         | 
     
| ssh_keys  
        (added in 2.2)
         | 
      
        
        Public SSH keys allowing access to the virtual machine.
         | 
     |
| state | 
       
  | 
      
        
        create or terminate instances
         | 
     
| subscription_password | 
        
        THe ProfitBricks password. Overrides the PB_PASSWORD environment variable.
         | 
     |
| subscription_user | 
        
        The ProfitBricks username. Overrides the PB_SUBSCRIPTION_ID environment variable.
         | 
     |
| volume_size | Default: 
        10
         | 
      
        
        The size in GB of the boot volume.
         | 
     
| wait  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        wait for the instance to be in state 'running' before returning
         | 
     
| wait_timeout | Default: 
        600
         | 
      
        
        how long before wait gives up, in seconds
         | 
     
Examples
# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.
# Provisioning example. This will create three servers and enumerate their names.
- profitbricks:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    name: web%02d.stackpointcloud.com
    cores: 4
    ram: 2048
    volume_size: 50
    cpu_family: INTEL_XEON
    image: a3eae284-a2fe-11e4-b187-5f1f641608c8
    location: us/las
    count: 3
    assign_public_ip: true
# Removing Virtual machines
- profitbricks:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    instance_ids:
      - 'web001.stackpointcloud.com'
      - 'web002.stackpointcloud.com'
      - 'web003.stackpointcloud.com'
    wait_timeout: 500
    state: absent
# Starting Virtual Machines.
- profitbricks:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    instance_ids:
      - 'web001.stackpointcloud.com'
      - 'web002.stackpointcloud.com'
      - 'web003.stackpointcloud.com'
    wait_timeout: 500
    state: running
# Stopping Virtual Machines
- profitbricks:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    instance_ids:
      - 'web001.stackpointcloud.com'
      - 'web002.stackpointcloud.com'
      - 'web003.stackpointcloud.com'
    wait_timeout: 500
    state: stopped
  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
- Matt Baldwin (baldwin@stackpointcloud.com)
 
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 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/profitbricks_module.html