Role Name

Provision compute instance(s) on GCP with production grade requirements.

• instance(s)
• dedicated boot-disk
• dedicated data and log disk
• a static IP

Requirements

• ansible client
• ansible.cfg file
• service account and gcp account

Role Variables

Role, on default, supports standalone provisioning. If you want distributed provisioning, you can provide more nodes, with appropriate naming convention, as list in your running yaml file.

defaults/main.yml,

# GCP project
general:
    project: sandbox-236618       #gcp project ID 
    region: europe-west4          #gcp region
    auth_kind: serviceaccount     
    service_account_file: ~/.ssh/ansible.json
scopes:
    - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute

# design your infrastructure architecture
nodes:
  - name: standalone-node    #node-name such as standalone-node/name-node/secondary-name-node/data-node1/data-node2 ..
    zone: europe-west4-a     #choose close regions, distribute to other nodes
    machine_type: f1-micro   #increase when needed
    ips:
        - nic: 
            name: "ip-01"
    tags: hadoop             #network tags used by FW rules! Use the tool name like hadoop, elasticsearch ...
    labels:                  #filtering! Use the tool name as type + master/worker as name
        type: hdfs
        name: master
    boot_disk:
        - disk:
            name: "boot-disk-01"
            size: 100
            image: "projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/family/ubuntu-2004-lts"
            auto_delete: true
            boot: true
    additional_disks:
        - disk: 
            name: "data-disk-01"
            size: 300
            auto_delete: true     #false is better for production usecases
            boot: false
        - disk: 
            name: "log-disk-01"
            size: 300
            auto_delete: true     #false is better for production usecases
            boot: false

Dependencies

n/a

Example Playbook

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ansible.cfg

[defaults]
host_key_checking = False
inventory = hosts

remote_user = tansudasli                          #your gcp account
private_key_file = ~/.ssh/google_compute_engine   #If set, always uses this for authentication

[inventory]
# List of enabled inventory plugins and the order in which they are used.
enable_plugins = host_list, script, yaml, ini, auto, gcp_compute

provision.yaml

- name: Create Compute Instance(s)
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no

   vars:
     general:
         project: sandbox-236618
         region: europe-west4
         auth_kind: serviceaccount
         service_account_file: ~/.ssh/ansible.json
     scopes:
         - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
          
  tasks:

  roles:
    #run w/ default var values
    - role: tansudasli.gcp_instances  

License

Apache-2.0

Author Information

tansudasli