rax: change meta on existing cloudserver?

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Hello all,

Does the rax set of modules have a module parallel to the ec2_tag module in AWS, or is there some way I should just re-call the rax module to change tags or groups of an existing host?

…and if I could sneak in a corollary: Can I list (/add/remove) more than one group within the rax module’s group parameter?

Apologies if I missed an existing example of this somewhere; I did take a look at the Detailed Guides, the module’s page and examples, and a few odds and ends I’d seen posted from rackers.

Thanks,
Mark

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There is not currently a way to change meta on an existing server. It is on my to-do list to add a rax_meta module, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

You would have to manually manipulate meta via the API outside of Ansible currently.

If you want to support more than 1 group with the rax module, you would utilize the ‘groups’ meta key such as:

  • rax:
    name: foo
    image: bar
    flavor: 2
    group: primary_group
    meta:
    groups: ‘group_two,group_three’
    etc…

The newer rax.py inventory script that is in devel right now, can handle the extra ‘groups’ meta key. Note that it’s value right now has to be a comma separated list, not an actual YAML list (this will likely change in the future, and the rax module will just coerce an actual list to the joined CSV string.

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Great. Thanks for the info and efforts on these modules.

Mark