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gce_tag - add or remove tag(s) to/from GCE instances

New in version 2.0.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6
  • apache-libcloud >= 0.17.0

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
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instance_name
The name of the GCE instance to add/remove tags.
Required if instance_pattern is not specified.
instance_pattern
(added in 2.3)
The pattern of GCE instance names to match for adding/removing tags. Full-Python regex is supported. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html for details.
If instance_name is not specified, this field is required.
pem_file
Path to the PEM file associated with the service account email.
project_id
Your GCE project ID.
service_account_email
Service account email.
state
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
Desired state of the tags.
tags
required
Comma-separated list of tags to add or remove.
zone
Default:
us-central1-a
The zone of the disk specified by source.

Notes

Note

  • Either instance_name or instance_pattern is required.

Examples

- name: Add tags to instance
  gce_tag:
    instance_name: staging-server
    tags: http-server,https-server,staging
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

- name: Remove tags from instance in default zone (us-central1-a)
  gce_tag:
    instance_name: test-server
    tags: foo,bar
    state: absent

- name: Add tags to instances in zone that match pattern
  gce_tag:
    instance_pattern: test-server-*
    tags: foo,bar
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present

Status

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

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