community.general.profitbricks_datacenter module – Create or destroy a ProfitBricks Virtual Datacenter

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.9).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.profitbricks_datacenter.

Synopsis

  • This is a simple module that supports creating or removing vDCs. A vDC is required before you can create servers. This module has a dependency on profitbricks >= 1.0.0

Requirements

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

  • profitbricks

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

string

The description of the virtual datacenter.

location

string

The datacenter location.

Choices:

  • "us/las" ← (default)

  • "de/fra"

  • "de/fkb"

name

string

The name of the virtual datacenter.

state

string

Create or terminate datacenters.

The available choices are: present, absent.

Default: "present"

subscription_password

string

THe ProfitBricks password. Overrides the PB_PASSWORD environment variable.

subscription_user

string

The ProfitBricks username. Overrides the PB_SUBSCRIPTION_ID environment variable.

wait

boolean

wait for the datacenter to be created before returning

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

wait_timeout

integer

how long before wait gives up, in seconds

Default: 600

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Create a datacenter
  community.general.profitbricks_datacenter:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    wait_timeout: 500

- name: Destroy a datacenter (remove all servers, volumes, and other objects in the datacenter)
  community.general.profitbricks_datacenter:
    datacenter: Tardis One
    wait_timeout: 500
    state: absent

Authors

  • Matt Baldwin (@baldwinSPC)