clearobject / ansible_gcp_example

Examples of using Ansible to manage GCE instances. Built for Indianapolis Ansible Meetup 1/17/2017

Introduction

This project provides a set of examples for managing GCE instances. These examples were built for the Indianapolis Ansible meetup. If you'd like to test these examples out on your own, you may want to change the various vars in the playbooks for your own needs.

Inventory

Inventory files are pulled from the contrib/inventory directory in Ansible. In order to access the specific account, you will need to set three values.

• GCE_PROJECT # Project ID
• GCE_EMAIL # Service account email
• GCE_PEM_FILE_PATH # GCE Generated credentials JSON

These can be be set in the gce.ini, in a secrets.py file, or in your environment

In order to SSH into the instances, you will need to connect once with the gcloud tool in order to generate a key in $HOME/.ssh/google_compute_engine

Executing a Playbook

ansible-playbook -i inventory/gce.py playbooks/<playbook_name>

Available Playbooks

name	description
provision	Creates two instances gcpdemo0 and gcpdemo1
teardown	Deletes GCP demo instances
nginx	Installs nginx on target servers and opens port 80
dns	Adds a dns zone and dns entry for one of the instances
image	Creates a persistent disk resource and a disk image
load_balancer	Creates a load balancer that sets up health checks
storage	Creates an object bucket, adds and object, and retrieves it