Using Ansible playbook to create instances in google cloud (gcp) - google-cloud-platform

Question

I'm using the following code
- name: create a instance
gcp_compute_instance:
name: test_object
machine_type: n1-standard-1
disks:
- auto_delete: 'false'
boot: 'true'
source: "{{ disk }}"
metadata:
startup-script-url:
cost-center:
labels:
environment: production
network_interfaces:
- network: "{{ network }}"
access_configs:
- name: External NAT
nat_ip: "{{ address }}"
type: ONE_TO_ONE_NAT
zone: us-central1-a
project: test-12y38912634812648
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "~/programming/gcloud/test-1283891264812-8h3981f3.json"
state: present
and I saved the file as create2.yml
Then I run Ansible-playbook create2.yml and I get the following error
ERROR! 'gcp_compute_instance' is not a valid attribute for a Play
The error appears to be in '/Users/xxx/programming/gcloud-test/create2.yml': line 1, column 3, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- name: create a instance
^ here
I followed the documentation. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it?

Answer 1

You haven't created a playbook, you've just created a file with a task which won't run on it's own as you've discovered.
A playbook is a collection of tasks. You should start with the playbook documentation:
Playbook Documentation
For GCP, here's a working example to create a network, external IP, disk and VM.
- name: 'Deploy gcp vm'
hosts: localhost
connection: local
become: false
gather_facts: no
vars:
gcp_project: "671245944514"
gcp_cred_kind: "serviceaccount"
gcp_cred_file: "/tmp/test-project.json"
gcp_region: "us-central1"
gcp_zone: "us-central1-a"
# Roles & Tasks
tasks:
- name: create a disk
gcp_compute_disk:
name: disk-instance
size_gb: 50
source_image: projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/family/ubuntu-2004-lts
zone: "{{ gcp_zone }}"
project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
state: present
register: disk
- name: create a network
gcp_compute_network:
name: network-instance
project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
state: present
register: network
- name: create a address
gcp_compute_address:
name: address-instance
region: "{{ gcp_region }}"
project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
auth_kind: "{{ gcp_cred_kind }}"
service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
state: present
register: address
- name: create a instance
gcp_compute_instance:
name: vm-instance
project: "{{ gcp_project }}"
zone: "{{ gcp_zone }}"
machine_type: n1-standard-1
disks:
- auto_delete: 'true'
boot: 'true'
source: "{{ disk }}"
labels:
environment: testing
network_interfaces:
- network: "{{ network }}"
access_configs:
- name: External NAT
nat_ip: "{{ address }}"
type: ONE_TO_ONE_NAT
auth_kind: serviceaccount
service_account_file: "{{ gcp_cred_file }}"
state: present