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