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ecs_attribute - manage ecs attributes

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Create, update or delete ECS container instance attributes.

Requirements

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

  • boto
  • boto3
  • botocore
  • python >= 2.6

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
attributes
required
List of attributes.
 
name
required
The name of the attribute. Up to 128 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens, underscores, and periods are allowed.
 
value
The value of the attribute. Up to 128 letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, hyphens, underscores, periods, at signs (@), forward slashes, colons, and spaces are allowed.
aws_access_key
AWS access key. If not set then the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_access_key, access_key
aws_secret_key
AWS secret key. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable is used.

aliases: ec2_secret_key, secret_key
cluster
required
The short name or full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the cluster that contains the resource to apply attributes.
ec2_instance_id
required
EC2 instance ID of ECS cluster container instance.
ec2_url
Url to use to connect to EC2 or your Eucalyptus cloud (by default the module will use EC2 endpoints). Ignored for modules where region is required. Must be specified for all other modules if region is not used. If not set then the value of the EC2_URL environment variable, if any, is used.
profile
(added in 1.6)
Uses a boto profile. Only works with boto >= 2.24.0.
region
The AWS region to use. If not specified then the value of the AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable, if any, is used. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region
security_token
(added in 1.6)
AWS STS security token. If not set then the value of the AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variable is used.

aliases: access_token
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
The desired state of the attributes.
validate_certs
(added in 1.5)
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
When set to "no", SSL certificates will not be validated for boto versions >= 2.6.0.

Notes

Note

  • If parameters are not set within the module, the following environment variables can be used in decreasing order of precedence AWS_URL or EC2_URL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY or EC2_SECRET_KEY, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN, AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION
  • Ansible uses the boto configuration file (typically ~/.boto) if no credentials are provided. See http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/boto_config_tut.html
  • AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION can be typically be used to specify the AWS region, when required, but this can also be configured in the boto config file

Examples

# Note: These examples do not set authentication details, see the AWS Guide for details.

# Set attributes
- ecs_attribute:
    state: present
    cluster: test-cluster
    ec2_instance_id: "{{ ec2_id }}"
    attributes:
      - flavor: test
      - migrated
  delegate_to: localhost

# Delete attributes
- ecs_attribute:
    state: absent
    cluster: test-cluster
    ec2_instance_id: "{{ ec2_id }}"
    attributes:
      - flavor: test
      - migrated
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key
Returned
Description
attributes
complex
always
attributes
 
cluster
string
cluster name
 
ec2_instance_id
string
ec2 instance id of ecs container instance
 
attributes
list of complex
list of attributes
 
 
name
string
name of the attribute
 
 
value
string
if present
value of the attribute


Status

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

Author

  • Andrej Svenke (@anryko)

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