elasticache_snapshot - Manage cache snapshots in Amazon Elasticache.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Manage cache snapshots in Amazon Elasticache.
  • Returns information about the specified snapshot.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • boto3
  • botocore

Options

parameter required default choices comments
bucket
no
The s3 bucket to which the snapshot is exported
cluster_id
no
The name of an existing cache cluster in the replication group to make the snapshot.
name
yes
The name of the snapshot we want to create, copy, delete
replication_id
no
The name of the existing replication group to make the snapshot.
state
no
  • present
  • absent
  • copy
Actions that will create, destroy, or copy a snapshot.
target
no
The name of a snapshot copy

Examples

# Note: None of these examples set aws_access_key, aws_secret_key, or region.
# It is assumed that their matching environment variables are set.
---
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  tasks:
    - name: 'Create a snapshot'
      elasticache_snapshot:
        name: 'test-snapshot'
        state: 'present'
        cluster_id: '{{ cluster }}'
        replication_id: '{{ replication }}'

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
changed
if a snapshot has been created, deleted, or copied
always bool {'changed': True}
response_metadata
response metadata about the snapshot
always dict {'retry_attempts': 0, 'http_status_code': 200, 'http_headers': {'date': 'Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:43:04 GMT', 'x-amzn-requestid': '7f436dea-ed54-11e6-a04c-ab2372a1f14d', 'content-length': 1490, 'content-type': 'text/xml'}, 'request_id': '7f436dea-ed54-11e6-a04c-ab2372a1f14d'}
snapshot
snapshot data
always dict {'engine': 'redis', 'cache_cluster_create_time': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 1, 17, 43, 58, 261000), 'cache_cluster_id': 'test-please-delete', 'snapshot_name': 'deletesnapshot', 'node_snapshots': {'cache_size': None, 'cache_node_id': 1, 'cache_node_create_time': datetime.datetime(2017, 2, 1, 17, 43, 58, 261000)}, 'preferred_availability_zone': 'us-east-1d', 'auto_minor_version_upgrade': True, 'cache_subnet_group_name': 'default', 'port': 11211, 'num_cache_nodes': 1, 'snapshot_window': '10:00-11:00', 'engine_version': '3.2.4', 'cache_parameter_group_name': 'default.redis3.2', 'snapshot_retention_limit': 0, 'preferred_maintenance_window': 'wed:03:00-wed:04:00', 'cache_node_type': 'cache.m1.small', 'vpc_id': 'vpc-c248fda4', 'snapshot_source': 'manual', 'snapshot_status': 'creating'}

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
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