# Adding OpenStack nova rebuild functionality **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 5, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-openstack-nova-rebuild-functionality/15858 "2014-08-05T01:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Allison\_Randal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Allison\_Randal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Allison_Randal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-openstack-nova-rebuild-functionality/15858/1 "2014-08-05T01:36:41Z")
I’m working on adding nova rebuild functionality to Ansible’s Cloud Modules. At the moment I’ve got it working as a separate module named nova\_rebuild: [https://github.com/allisonrandal/tripleo-ansible/blob/dce23e03ba12db507909b3d897fd9e0903e55387/library/cloud/nova\_rebuild](https://github.com/allisonrandal/tripleo-ansible/blob/dce23e03ba12db507909b3d897fd9e0903e55387/library/cloud/nova_rebuild) Would you rather have this functionality added to the nova\_compute module? (For example, running \_rebuild\_server instead of \_create\_server if state=present and rebuild=yes, or something like that.) Thanks, Allison ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-openstack-nova-rebuild-functionality/15858/2 "2014-08-05T15:22:26Z")
Yes, if this deals directly with VMs running on a compute node, it would be better as a state option for the existing module. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Trevor\_Hartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Trevor\_Hartman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Trevor_Hartman)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-openstack-nova-rebuild-functionality/15858/3 "2015-07-15T16:23:05Z")
Hi Allison, have you thought about getting this into the existing nova module?