rax - create / delete an instance in Rackspace Public Cloud

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Author

Synopsis

• creates / deletes a Rackspace Public Cloud instance and optionally waits for it to be ‘running’.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• pyrax

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Build a Cloud Server
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: Server build request
      local_action:
        module: rax
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        name: rax-test1
        flavor: 5
        image: b11d9567-e412-4255-96b9-bd63ab23bcfe
        key_name: my_rackspace_key
        files:
          /root/test.txt: /home/localuser/test.txt
        wait: yes
        state: present
        networks:
          - private
          - public
      register: rax

- name: Build an exact count of cloud servers with incremented names
  hosts: local
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: Server build requests
      local_action:
        module: rax
        credentials: ~/.raxpub
        name: test%03d.example.org
        flavor: performance1-1
        image: ubuntu-1204-lts-precise-pangolin
        state: present
        count: 10
        count_offset: 10
        exact_count: yes
        group: test
        wait: yes
      register: rax

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

• Jesse Keating (@omgjlk)
• Matt Martz (@sivel)