community.azure.azure_rm_virtualmachine_scaleset (0.1.0) — module

Manage Azure virtual machine scale sets

Authors: Sertac Ozercan (@sozercan)

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Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.azure:==0.1.0


Add to requirements.yml

  collections:
    - name: community.azure
      version: 0.1.0

Description

Create and update a virtual machine scale set.

Note that this module was called M(azure_rm_virtualmachine_scaleset) before Ansible 2.8. The usage did not change.


Requirements

Usage examples

  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.

- name: Create VMSS
  azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvmss
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    capacity: 2
    virtual_network_name: testvnet
    upgrade_policy: Manual
    subnet_name: testsubnet
    terminate_event_timeout_minutes: 10
    scale_in_policy: NewestVM
    admin_username: adminUser
    ssh_password_enabled: false
    ssh_public_keys:
      - path: /home/adminUser/.ssh/authorized_keys
        key_data: < insert yor ssh public key here... >
    managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
    image:
      offer: CoreOS
      publisher: CoreOS
      sku: Stable
      version: latest
    data_disks:
      - lun: 0
        disk_size_gb: 64
        caching: ReadWrite
        managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create VMSS with an image that requires plan information
  azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvmss
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    capacity: 3
    virtual_network_name: testvnet
    upgrade_policy: Manual
    subnet_name: testsubnet
    admin_username: adminUser
    ssh_password_enabled: false
    ssh_public_keys:
      - path: /home/adminUser/.ssh/authorized_keys
        key_data: < insert yor ssh public key here... >
    managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
    image:
      offer: cis-ubuntu-linux-1804-l1
      publisher: center-for-internet-security-inc
      sku: Stable
      version: latest
    plan:
      name: cis-ubuntu-linux-1804-l1
      product: cis-ubuntu-linux-1804-l1
      publisher: center-for-internet-security-inc
    data_disks:
      - lun: 0
        disk_size_gb: 64
        caching: ReadWrite
        managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create a VMSS with a custom image
  azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvmss
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    capacity: 2
    virtual_network_name: testvnet
    upgrade_policy: Manual
    subnet_name: testsubnet
    admin_username: adminUser
    admin_password: password01
    managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
    image: customimage001
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create a VMSS with a custom image and override data disk
  azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvmss
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    capacity: 2
    virtual_network_name: testvnet
    upgrade_policy: Manual
    subnet_name: testsubnet
    admin_username: adminUser
    admin_password: password01
    managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
    image: customimage001
    data_disks:
      - lun: 0
        disk_size_gb: 64
        caching: ReadWrite
        managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
        create_option: FromImage
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create a VMSS with over 100 instances
  azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvmss
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    capacity: 120
    single_placement_group: False
    virtual_network_name: testvnet
    upgrade_policy: Manual
    subnet_name: testsubnet
    admin_username: adminUser
    admin_password: password01
    managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
    image: customimage001
  • Success
    Steampunk Spotter scan finished with no errors, warnings or hints.
- name: Create a VMSS with a custom image from a particular resource group
  azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvmss
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    capacity: 2
    virtual_network_name: testvnet
    upgrade_policy: Manual
    subnet_name: testsubnet
    admin_username: adminUser
    admin_password: password01
    managed_disk_type: Standard_LRS
    image:
      name: customimage001
      resource_group: myResourceGroup

Inputs

    
name:
    description:
    - Name of the virtual machine.
    required: true

plan:
    description:
    - Third-party billing plan for the VM.
    suboptions:
      name:
        description:
        - Billing plan name.
        required: true
      product:
        description:
        - Product name.
        required: true
      promotion_code:
        description:
        - Optional promotion code.
      publisher:
        description:
        - Publisher offering the plan.
        required: true
    type: dict

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

tier:
    choices:
    - Basic
    - Standard
    description:
    - SKU Tier.

image:
    description:
    - Specifies the image used to build the VM.
    - If a string, the image is sourced from a custom image based on the name.
    - If a dict with the keys I(publisher), I(offer), I(sku), and I(version), the image
      is sourced from a Marketplace image. Note that set I(version=latest) to get the
      most recent version of a given image.
    - If a dict with the keys I(name) and I(resource_group), the image is sourced from
      a custom image based on the I(name) and I(resource_group) set. Note that the key
      I(resource_group) is optional and if omitted, all images in the subscription will
      be searched for by I(name).
    - Custom image support was added in Ansible 2.5.
    required: true

state:
    choices:
    - absent
    - present
    default: present
    description:
    - Assert the state of the virtual machine scale set.
    - State C(present) will check that the machine exists with the requested configuration.
      If the configuration of the existing machine does not match, the machine will be
      updated.
    - State C(absent) will remove the virtual machine scale set.

zones:
    description:
    - A list of Availability Zones for your virtual machine scale set.
    type: list

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

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

os_type:
    choices:
    - Windows
    - Linux
    default: Linux
    description:
    - Base type of operating system.

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

vm_size:
    description:
    - A valid Azure VM size value. For example, C(Standard_D4).
    - The list of choices varies depending on the subscription and location. Check your
      subscription for available choices.

capacity:
    default: 1
    description:
    - Capacity of VMSS.

location:
    description:
    - Valid Azure location. Defaults to location of the resource group.

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

priority:
    choices:
    - Regular
    - Low
    default: Regular
    description:
    - If you want to request low-priority VMs for the VMSS, set this to "Low". The default
      is "Regular"

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

data_disks:
    description:
    - Describes list of data disks.
    suboptions:
      caching:
        choices:
        - ReadOnly
        - ReadWrite
        default: ReadOnly
        description:
        - Type of data disk caching.
      create_option:
        choices:
        - Empty
        - FromImage
        description:
        - Specify whether disk should be created Empty or FromImage.  This is required
          to allow custom images with data disks to be used.
      disk_size_gb:
        description:
        - The initial disk size in GB for blank data disks.
      lun:
        default: 0
        description:
        - The logical unit number for data disk.
      managed_disk_type:
        choices:
        - Standard_LRS
        - Premium_LRS
        description:
        - Managed data disk type.

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: '2.5'
    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
    description:
    - Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.
    - If not specified, ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable will be used and
      default to C(auto) if variable is not defined.
    - C(auto) will follow the default precedence of module parameters -> environment variables
      -> default profile in credential file C(~/.azure/credentials).
    - When set to C(cli), the credentials will be sources from the default Azure CLI profile.
    - Can also be set via the C(ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE) environment variable.
    - 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: '2.5'
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

custom_data:
    description:
    - Data which is made available to the virtual machine and used by e.g., C(cloud-init).
    - Many images in the marketplace are not cloud-init ready. Thus, data sent to I(custom_data)
      would be ignored.
    - If the image you are attempting to use is not listed in U(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/using-cloud-init#cloud-init-overview),
      follow these steps U(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/cloudinit-prepare-custom-image).

subnet_name:
    aliases:
    - subnet
    description:
    - Subnet name.

load_balancer:
    description:
    - Load balancer name.

overprovision:
    default: true
    description:
    - Specifies whether the Virtual Machine Scale Set should be overprovisioned.
    type: bool

admin_password:
    description:
    - Password for the admin username.
    - Not required if the os_type is Linux and SSH password authentication is disabled
      by setting I(ssh_password_enabled=false).

admin_username:
    description:
    - Admin username used to access the host after it is created. Required when creating
      a VM.

resource_group:
    description:
    - Name of the resource group containing the virtual machine scale set.
    required: true

security_group:
    aliases:
    - security_group_name
    description:
    - Existing security group with which to associate the subnet.
    - It can be the security group name which is in the same resource group.
    - It can be the resource ID.
    - It can be a dict which contains I(name) and I(resource_group) of the security group.

short_hostname:
    description:
    - Short host name.

upgrade_policy:
    choices:
    - Manual
    - Automatic
    description:
    - Upgrade policy.
    - Required when creating the Azure virtual machine scale sets.

os_disk_caching:
    aliases:
    - disk_caching
    choices:
    - ReadOnly
    - ReadWrite
    default: ReadOnly
    description:
    - Type of OS disk caching.

scale_in_policy:
    choices:
    - Default
    - NewestVM
    - OldestVM
    description:
    - define the order in which vmss instances are scaled-in

ssh_public_keys:
    description:
    - For I(os_type=Linux) provide a list of SSH keys.
    - Each item in the list should be a dictionary where the dictionary contains two keys,
      C(path) and C(key_data).
    - Set the C(path) to the default location of the authorized_keys files.
    - On an Enterprise Linux host, for example, the I(path=/home/<admin username>/.ssh/authorized_keys).
      Set C(key_data) to the actual value of the public key.

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

remove_on_absent:
    default:
    - all
    description:
    - When removing a VM using I(state=absent), also remove associated resources.
    - It can be C(all) or a list with any of the following ['network_interfaces', 'virtual_storage',
      'public_ips'].
    - Any other input will be ignored.

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: '2.4'
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

managed_disk_type:
    choices:
    - Standard_LRS
    - Premium_LRS
    description:
    - Managed disk type.

adfs_authority_url:
    description:
    - Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has
      your own ADFS authority.
    type: str
    version_added: '2.6'
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

application_gateway:
    description:
    - Application gateway name.

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: '2.5'
    version_added_collection: azure.azcollection

ssh_password_enabled:
    default: true
    description:
    - When the os_type is Linux, setting I(ssh_password_enabled=false) will disable SSH
      password authentication and require use of SSH keys.
    type: bool

virtual_network_name:
    aliases:
    - virtual_network
    description:
    - Virtual Network name.

single_placement_group:
    default: true
    description:
    - When true this limits the scale set to a single placement group, of max size 100
      virtual machines.
    type: bool

enable_accelerated_networking:
    description:
    - Indicates whether user wants to allow accelerated networking for virtual machines
      in scaleset being created.
    type: bool

virtual_network_resource_group:
    description:
    - When creating a virtual machine, if a specific virtual network from another resource
      group should be used.
    - Use this parameter to specify the resource group to use.

terminate_event_timeout_minutes:
    description:
    - timeout time for termination notification event
    - in range between 5 and 15

Outputs

azure_vmss:
  description:
  - Facts about the current state of the object.
  - Note that facts are not part of the registered output but available directly.
  returned: always
  sample:
    properties:
      overprovision: true
      scaleInPolicy:
        rules:
        - NewestVM
      singlePlacementGroup: true
      upgradePolicy:
        mode: Manual
      virtualMachineProfile:
        networkProfile:
          networkInterfaceConfigurations:
          - name: testvmss
            properties:
              dnsSettings:
                dnsServers: []
              enableAcceleratedNetworking: false
              ipConfigurations:
              - name: default
                properties:
                  privateIPAddressVersion: IPv4
                  subnet:
                    id: /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroup/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/testvnet/subnets/testsubnet
              primary: true
        osProfile:
          adminUsername: testuser
          computerNamePrefix: testvmss
          linuxConfiguration:
            disablePasswordAuthentication: true
            ssh:
              publicKeys:
              - keyData: ''
                path: /home/testuser/.ssh/authorized_keys
          secrets: []
        scheduledEventsProfile:
          terminateNotificationProfile:
            enable: true
            notBeforeTimeout: PT10M
        storageProfile:
          dataDisks:
          - caching: ReadWrite
            createOption: empty
            diskSizeGB: 64
            lun: 0
            managedDisk:
              storageAccountType: Standard_LRS
          imageReference:
            offer: CoreOS
            publisher: CoreOS
            sku: Stable
            version: 899.17.0
          osDisk:
            caching: ReadWrite
            createOption: fromImage
            managedDisk:
              storageAccountType: Standard_LRS
    sku:
      capacity: 2
      name: Standard_DS1_v2
      tier: Standard
    tags: null
    type: Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets
  type: dict

See also