cloudscale_server - Manages servers on the cloudscale.ch IaaS service¶

# Start a server (if it does not exist) and register the server details
- name: Start cloudscale.ch server
  cloudscale_server:
    name: my-shiny-cloudscale-server
    image: debian-8
    flavor: flex-4
    ssh_keys: ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXX...XXXX ansible@cloudscale
    use_private_network: True
    bulk_volume_size_gb: 100
    api_token: xxxxxx
  register: server1

# Start another server in anti-affinity to the first one
- name: Start second cloudscale.ch server
  cloudscale_server:
    name: my-other-shiny-server
    image: ubuntu-16.04
    flavor: flex-8
    ssh_keys: ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXXX ansible@cloudscale
    anti_affinity_with: '{{ server1.uuid }}'
    api_token: xxxxxx

# Stop the first server
- name: Stop my first server
  cloudscale_server:
    uuid: '{{ server1.uuid }}'
    state: stopped
    api_token: xxxxxx

# Delete my second server
- name: Delete my second server
  cloudscale_server:
    name: my-other-shiny-server
    state: absent
    api_token: xxxxxx

# Start a server and wait for the SSH host keys to be generated
- name: Start server and wait for SSH host keys
  cloudscale_server:
    name: my-cloudscale-server-with-ssh-key
    image: debian-8
    flavor: flex-4
    ssh_keys: ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXXX ansible@cloudscale
    api_token: xxxxxx
  register: server
  until: server.ssh_fingerprints
  retries: 60
  delay: 2