community.general.packet_volume_attachment – Attach/detach a volume to a device in the Packet host.

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.packet_volume_attachment.

New in version 0.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Attach/detach a volume to a device in the Packet host.
API is documented at https://www.packet.com/developers/api/volumes/.
This module creates the attachment route in the Packet API. In order to discover the block devices on the server, you have to run the Attach Scripts, as documented at https://help.packet.net/technical/storage/packet-block-storage-linux.

Requirements

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

python >= 2.6
packet-python >= 1.35

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_token string		Packet API token. You can also supply it in env var `PACKET_API_TOKEN`.
device string		Selector for the device. It can be a UUID of the device, or a hostname. Example values: 98a14f7a-3d27-4478-b7cf-35b5670523f3, "my device"
project_id string / required		UUID of the project to which the device and volume belong.
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Indicate desired state of the attachment.
volume string / required		Selector for the volume. It can be a UUID, an API-generated volume name, or user-defined description string. Example values: 4a347482-b546-4f67-8300-fb5018ef0c5, volume-4a347482, "my volume"

Examples

# All the examples assume that you have your Packet API token in env var PACKET_API_TOKEN.
# You can also pass the api token in module param auth_token.

- hosts: localhost

  vars:
    volname: testvol
    devname: testdev
    project_id: 52000fb2-ee46-4673-93a8-de2c2bdba33b

  tasks:
    - name: Create volume
      packet_volume:
        description: "{{ volname }}"
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        facility: ewr1
        plan: storage_1
        state: present
        size: 10
        snapshot_policy:
          snapshot_count: 10
          snapshot_frequency: 1day

    - name: Create a device
      packet_device:
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        hostnames: "{{ devname }}"
        operating_system: ubuntu_16_04
        plan: baremetal_0
        facility: ewr1
        state: present

    - name: Attach testvol to testdev
      community.general.packet_volume_attachment:
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        volume: "{{ volname }}"
        device: "{{ devname }}"

    - name: Detach testvol from testdev
      community.general.packet_volume_attachment:
        project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
        volume: "{{ volname }}"
        device: "{{ devname }}"
        state: absent

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
device_id string	success	UUID of device addressed by the module call.
volume_id string	success	UUID of volume addressed by the module call.

Authors

Tomas Karasek (@t0mk) <tom.to.the.k@gmail.com>
Nurfet Becirevic (@nurfet-becirevic) <nurfet.becirevic@gmail.com>

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