Ansible Collection for cloudscale.ch Cloud

This collection provides a series of Ansible modules and plugins for interacting with the cloudscale.ch Cloud.

Installation

To install the collection hosted in Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy collection install cloudscale_ch.cloud

To upgrade to the latest version of the collection:

ansible-galaxy collection install cloudscale_ch.cloud --force

Usage

Playbooks

To use a module from the cloudscale.ch collection, please reference the full namespace, collection name, and modules name that you want to use:

---
- name: Using cloudscale.ch collection
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - cloudscale_ch.cloud.server:
        name: web1
        image: debian-10
        flavor: flex-2
        ssh_keys:
          - ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXX...XXXX ansible@cloudscale
        server_groups: web-group
        zone: lpg1
        api_token: ...

Or you can add the full namespace and collection name in the collections element:

---
- name: Using cloudscale.ch collection
  hosts: localhost
  collections:
    - cloudscale_ch.cloud
  tasks:
    - server:
        name: web1
        image: debian-10
        flavor: flex-2
        ssh_keys:
          - ssh-rsa XXXXXXXXXX...XXXX ansible@cloudscale
        server_groups: web-group
        zone: lpg1
        api_token: ...

Roles

For existing Ansible roles, please also reference the full namespace, collection name, and modules name that are used in tasks instead of just modules name.

Plugins

To use a plugin, please reference the full namespace, collection name, and plugins name that you want to use:

plugin: cloudscale_ch.cloud.<myplugin>

Contributing

There are many ways in which you can participate in the project, for example:

• Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify them as they are checked in
• Review source code changes
• Review the documentation and make pull requests for anything from typos to new content
• If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see the CONTRIBUTING document.

Releasing

Prepare a new release

The changelog is managed using the antsibull tool. You can install
it using pip install antsibull

1. Update version in galaxy.yml
2. Update changelog using antsibull

   antsibull-changelog release

3. Commit changelog and new version

   git commit -m "Release version X.Y.Z" galaxy.yml CHANGELOG.rst changelogs/

4. Tag the release. Preferably create a GPG signed tag if you have a GPG
   key. Version tags should be prefixed with “v” (otherwise the
   integration tests won’t run automatically).

   git tag -s -m "Version X.Y.Z" vX.Y.Z

5. Push the release and tag

   git push origin master vX.Y.Z

Release to Ansible Galaxy

After the release is tagged and pushed to Github a release to Ansible
Galaxy can be created using the release feature in Github:

1. Wait for integration tests to succeed. They should automatically
   run on new tags. Only release if they succeed. Otherwise delete the
   tag and fix the issue.
2. Create a release on Github by going to the release overview and
   selecting “Draft a new release”.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

See COPYING to see the full text.