community.general.lxd_profile – Manage LXD profiles

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

Synopsis

  • Management of LXD profiles

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
client_cert
path
The client certificate file path.
If not specified, it defaults to $HOME/.config/lxc/client.crt.

aliases: cert_file
client_key
path
The client certificate key file path.
If not specified, it defaults to $HOME/.config/lxc/client.key.

aliases: key_file
config
dictionary
The config for the container (e.g. {"limits.memory": "4GB"}). See https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md#patch-3
If the profile already exists and its "config" value in metadata obtained from GET /1.0/profiles/<name> https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md#get-19 are different, they this module tries to apply the configurations.
Not all config values are supported to apply the existing profile. Maybe you need to delete and recreate a profile.
description
string
Description of the profile.
devices
dictionary
The devices for the profile (e.g. {"rootfs": {"path": "/dev/kvm", "type": "unix-char"}). See https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md#patch-3
merge_profile
boolean
added in 2.1.0 of community.general
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Merge the configuration of the present profile with the new desired configuration, instead of replacing it.
name
string / required
Name of a profile.
new_name
string
A new name of a profile.
If this parameter is specified a profile will be renamed to this name. See https://github.com/lxc/lxd/blob/master/doc/rest-api.md#post-11
snap_url
string
Default:
"unix:/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket"
The unix domain socket path when LXD is installed by snap package manager.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
Define the state of a profile.
trust_password
string
The client trusted password.
You need to set this password on the LXD server before running this module using the following command. lxc config set core.trust_password <some random password> See https://www.stgraber.org/2016/04/18/lxd-api-direct-interaction/
If trust_password is set, this module send a request for authentication before sending any requests.
url
string
Default:
"unix:/var/lib/lxd/unix.socket"
The unix domain socket path or the https URL for the LXD server.

Notes

Note

  • Profiles must have a unique name. If you attempt to create a profile with a name that already existed in the users namespace the module will simply return as “unchanged”.

Examples

# An example for creating a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Create a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: macvlan
        state: present
        config: {}
        description: my macvlan profile
        devices:
          eth0:
            nictype: macvlan
            parent: br0
            type: nic

# An example for creating a profile via http connection
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: Create macvlan profile
    community.general.lxd_profile:
      url: https://127.0.0.1:8443
      # These client_cert and client_key values are equal to the default values.
      #client_cert: "{{ lookup('env', 'HOME') }}/.config/lxc/client.crt"
      #client_key: "{{ lookup('env', 'HOME') }}/.config/lxc/client.key"
      trust_password: mypassword
      name: macvlan
      state: present
      config: {}
      description: my macvlan profile
      devices:
        eth0:
          nictype: macvlan
          parent: br0
          type: nic

# An example for modify/merge a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Merge a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        merge_profile: true
        name: macvlan
        state: present
        config: {}
        description: my macvlan profile
        devices:
          eth0:
            nictype: macvlan
            parent: br0
            type: nic

# An example for deleting a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Delete a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: macvlan
        state: absent

# An example for renaming a profile
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: Rename a profile
      community.general.lxd_profile:
        name: macvlan
        new_name: macvlan2
        state: present

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
actions
list / elements=string
success
List of actions performed for the profile.

Sample:
["create"]
logs
list / elements=string
when ansible-playbook is invoked with -vvvv.
The logs of requests and responses.

Sample:
(too long to be placed here)
old_state
string
success
The old state of the profile

Sample:
absent


Authors

  • Hiroaki Nakamura (@hnakamur)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/lxd_profile_module.html