✔️ Requirements

• ansible >= 2.9
• python >= 2.6
• requests >= 2.18.4
• google-auth >= 1.3.0
• gcp and service account

📝 GCP Variables

🔐 Generate GCP project key File

$ gcloud iam service-accounts keys create key-file [email protected]

• key-file: The name of the private key file.
• sa-name: The name of the service account to create a key for.
• project-id: Your Google Cloud project ID.

💡 Another useful commands

Value	GCP Command	Comments
machine types	$ gcloud compute machine-types list --filter="zone: your_zone"	List all machine types available filtered by zone
GCP Zone	$ gcloud compute regions list	List all zones available
Region	$ gcloud compute zones list	List all regions available

🚀 Build GCP instance

1. Fill out all required variables in the role/build-instance/vars/mail.yml file.
2. Run build playbook

$ ansible-playbook build-instance.yml

⚠️ Destroy GCP instance

1. Fill out all required variables in the role/destroy-instance/vars/mail.yml file.
2. Run destroy playbook

$ ansible-playbook destroy-instance.yml

💾 Create and attach new disk on GCP instance

1. Fill out all required variables in the role/create-disks/vars/mail.yml file.
2. Run create-disk playbook

$ ansible-playbook create-disk.yml

⚠️ Detach and destroy disk from GCP instance

1. Fill out all required variables in the role/destroy-disks/vars/mail.yml file.
2. Run destroy-disk playbook

$ ansible-playbook destroy-disk.yml

📓 Dynamic Inventory

Using inventory.yml file as dynamic inventory you can list all GCP instances and create groups based on its tags.

1. Change both values into inventory.yml file: project_name and credentials_file

2. Run the command below lists to list all your inventory:

$ ansible-inventory -i inventory.yml --list

3. You can view the populated inventory with:

$ ansible-inventory -i inventory.yml --graph

@all:
  |--@Porto:
  |  |--34.0.0.1
  |  |--34.0.0.2
  |--@Lisbon:
  |  |--35.0.0.1
  |--@ungrouped:
  |--@zone_us_central1_a:
  |  |--34.0.0.1
  |  |--34.0.0.2
  |  |--35.0.0.1