ansible.builtin.azure_rm_autoscale (v2.9.17) — module

Manage Azure autoscale setting

| "added in version" 2.7 of ansible.builtin"

Authors: Yuwei Zhou (@yuwzho)

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Install Ansible via pip

Install with pip install ansible==2.9.17

Description

Create, delete an autoscale setting.


Requirements

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create an auto scale
  azure_rm_autoscale:
      target: "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/myVmss"
      enabled: true
      profiles:
      - count: '1'
        recurrence_days:
        - Monday
        name: Auto created scale condition
        recurrence_timezone: China Standard Time
        recurrence_mins:
        - '0'
        min_count: '1'
        max_count: '1'
        recurrence_frequency: Week
        recurrence_hours:
        - '18'
      name: scale
      resource_group: myResourceGroup
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create an auto scale with complicated profile
  azure_rm_autoscale:
      target: "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets
               /myVmss"
      enabled: true
      profiles:
      - count: '1'
        recurrence_days:
        - Monday
        name: Auto created scale condition 0
        rules:
        - Time_aggregation: Average
          time_window: 10
          direction: Increase
          metric_name: Percentage CPU
          metric_resource_uri: "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtua
                                lMachineScaleSets/vmss"
          value: '1'
          threshold: 70
          cooldown: 5
          time_grain: 1
          statistic: Average
          operator: GreaterThan
          type: ChangeCount
        max_count: '1'
        recurrence_mins:
        - '0'
        min_count: '1'
        recurrence_timezone: China Standard Time
        recurrence_frequency: Week
        recurrence_hours:
        - '6'
      notifications:
      - email_admin: True
        email_co_admin: False
        custom_emails:
        - yuwzho@microsoft.com
      name: scale
      resource_group: myResourceGroup
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Delete an Azure Auto Scale Setting
  azure_rm_autoscale:
    state: absent
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: scale

Inputs

    
name:
    description:
    - name of the resource.
    required: true

tags:
    description:
    - Dictionary of string:string pairs to assign as metadata to the object.
    - Metadata tags on the object will be updated with any provided values.
    - To remove tags set append_tags option to false.
    type: dict

state:
    choices:
    - present
    - absent
    default: present
    description:
    - Assert the state of the virtual network. Use C(present) to create or update and
      C(absent) to delete.

secret:
    description:
    - Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
    type: str

target:
    description:
    - The identifier of the resource to apply autoscale setting.
    - It could be the resource id string.
    - It also could be a dict contains the C(name), C(subscription_id), C(namespace),
      C(types), C(resource_group) of the resource.

tenant:
    description:
    - Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
    type: str

ad_user:
    description:
    - Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user
      rather than service principal.
    type: str

enabled:
    default: true
    description:
    - Specifies whether automatic scaling is enabled for the resource.
    type: bool

profile:
    description:
    - Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.
    type: str

location:
    description:
    - location of the resource.

password:
    description:
    - Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory
      user rather than service principal.
    type: str

profiles:
    description:
    - The collection of automatic scaling profiles that specify different scaling parameters
      for different time periods.
    - A maximum of 20 profiles can be specified.
    suboptions:
      count:
        description:
        - The number of instances that will be set if metrics are not available for evaluation.
        - The default is only used if the current instance count is lower than the default.
        required: true
      fixed_date_end:
        description:
        - The specific date-time end for the profile.
        - This element is not used if the Recurrence element is used.
      fixed_date_start:
        description:
        - The specific date-time start for the profile.
        - This element is not used if the Recurrence element is used.
      fixed_date_timezone:
        description:
        - The specific date-time timezone for the profile.
        - This element is not used if the Recurrence element is used.
      max_count:
        description:
        - The maximum number of instances for the resource.
        - The actual maximum number of instances is limited by the cores that are available
          in the subscription.
      min_count:
        description:
        - The minimum number of instances for the resource.
      name:
        description:
        - The name of the profile.
        required: true
      recurrence_days:
        description:
        - The days of repeating times at which this profile begins.
        - This element is not used if the FixedDate element is used.
      recurrence_frequency:
        choices:
        - None
        - Second
        - Minute
        - Hour
        - Day
        - Week
        - Month
        - Year
        default: None
        description:
        - How often the schedule profile should take effect.
        - If this value is C(Week), meaning each week will have the same set of profiles.
        - This element is not used if the FixedDate element is used.
      recurrence_hours:
        description:
        - The hours of repeating times at which this profile begins.
        - This element is not used if the FixedDate element is used.
      recurrence_mins:
        description:
        - The mins of repeating times at which this profile begins.
        - This element is not used if the FixedDate element is used.
      recurrence_timezone:
        description:
        - The timezone of repeating times at which this profile begins.
        - This element is not used if the FixedDate element is used.
      rules:
        description:
        - The collection of rules that provide the triggers and parameters for the scaling
          action.
        - A maximum of 10 rules can be specified.
        suboptions:
          cooldown:
            description:
            - The amount of time (minutes) to wait since the last scaling action before
              this action occurs.
            - It must be between 1 ~ 10080.
          direction:
            choices:
            - Increase
            - Decrease
            description:
            - Whether the scaling action increases or decreases the number of instances.
          metric_name:
            description:
            - The name of the metric that defines what the rule monitors.
            required: true
          metric_resource_uri:
            description:
            - The resource identifier of the resource the rule monitors.
          operator:
            choices:
            - Equals
            - NotEquals
            - GreaterThan
            - GreaterThanOrEqual
            - LessThan
            - LessThanOrEqual
            default: GreaterThan
            description:
            - The operator that is used to compare the metric data and the threshold.
          statistic:
            choices:
            - Average
            - Min
            - Max
            - Sum
            default: Average
            description:
            - How the metrics from multiple instances are combined.
          threshold:
            default: 70
            description:
            - The threshold of the metric that triggers the scale action.
          time_aggregation:
            choices:
            - Average
            - Minimum
            - Maximum
            - Total
            - Count
            default: Average
            description:
            - How the data that is collected should be combined over time.
          time_grain:
            description:
            - The granularity(minutes) of metrics the rule monitors.
            - Must be one of the predefined values returned from metric definitions for
              the metric.
            - Must be between 1 ~ 720.
            required: true
          time_window:
            description:
            - The range of time(minutes) in which instance data is collected.
            - This value must be greater than the delay in metric collection, which can
              vary from resource-to-resource.
            - Must be between 5 ~ 720.
            required: true
          type:
            choices:
            - PercentChangeCount
            - ExactCount
            - ChangeCount
            description:
            - The type of action that should occur when the scale rule fires.
          value:
            description:
            - The number of instances that are involved in the scaling action.
            - This value must be 1 or greater.

client_id:
    description:
    - Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
    type: str

api_profile:
    default: latest
    description:
    - Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value
      of C(latest) is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with
      Azure Stack.
    type: str
    version_added: 0.0.1
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

append_tags:
    default: true
    description:
    - Use to control if tags field is canonical or just appends to existing tags.
    - When canonical, any tags not found in the tags parameter will be removed from the
      object's metadata.
    type: bool

auth_source:
    choices:
    - auto
    - cli
    - credential_file
    - env
    - msi
    default: auto
    description:
    - Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.
    - Can also be set via the C(ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE) environment variable.
    - When set to C(auto) (the default) the precedence is module parameters -> C(env)
      -> C(credential_file) -> C(cli).
    - When set to C(env), the credentials will be read from the environment variables
    - When set to C(credential_file), it will read the profile from C(~/.azure/credentials).
    - When set to C(cli), the credentials will be sources from the Azure CLI profile.
      C(subscription_id) or the environment variable C(AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID) can be used
      to identify the subscription ID if more than one is present otherwise the default
      az cli subscription is used.
    - When set to C(msi), the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI
      extension. C(subscription_id) or the environment variable C(AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID)
      can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to
      more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen.
    - The C(msi) was added in Ansible 2.6.
    type: str
    version_added: 0.0.1
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

notifications:
    description:
    - The collection of notifications.
    suboptions:
      custom_emails:
        description:
        - The custom e-mails list. This value can be null or empty, in which case this
          attribute will be ignored.
      send_to_subscription_administrator:
        description:
        - A value indicating whether to send email to subscription administrator.
        type: bool
      send_to_subscription_co_administrators:
        description:
        - A value indicating whether to send email to subscription co-administrators.
        type: bool
      webhooks:
        description:
        - The list of webhook notifications service uri.

resource_group:
    description:
    - Resource group of the resource.
    required: true

subscription_id:
    description:
    - Your Azure subscription Id.
    type: str

cloud_environment:
    default: AzureCloud
    description:
    - For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as
      defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, C(AzureChinaCloud), C(AzureUSGovernment)), or a
      metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via
      credential file profile or the C(AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT) environment variable.
    type: str
    version_added: 0.0.1
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

adfs_authority_url:
    description:
    - Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has
      your own ADFS authority.
    type: str
    version_added: 0.0.1
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

cert_validation_mode:
    choices:
    - ignore
    - validate
    description:
    - Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all
      modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use,
      or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing
      C(ignore). Can also be set via credential file profile or the C(AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION)
      environment variable.
    type: str
    version_added: 0.0.1
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

Outputs

state:
  description: Current state of the resource.
  returned: always
  sample:
    changed: false
    enabled: true
    id: /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/scale
    location: eastus
    name: scale
    notifications:
    - custom_emails:
      - yuwzho@microsoft.com
      send_to_subscription_administrator: true
      send_to_subscription_co_administrators: false
      webhooks: []
    profiles:
    - count: '1'
      max_count: '1'
      min_count: '1'
      name: Auto created scale condition 0
      recurrence_days:
      - Monday
      recurrence_frequency: Week
      recurrence_hours:
      - '6'
      recurrence_mins:
      - '0'
      recurrence_timezone: China Standard Time
      rules:
      - cooldown: 5.0
        direction: Increase
        metric_name: Percentage CPU
        metric_resource_uri: /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsof
          t.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/MyVmss
        operator: GreaterThan
        statistic: Average
        threshold: 70.0
        time_aggregation: Average
        time_grain: 1.0
        time_window: 10.0
        type: ChangeCount
        value: '1'
    target: /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScale
      Sets/myVmss
  type: dict

See also