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gce_tag - add or remove tag(s) to/from GCE instances
New in version 2.0.
Synopsis
- This module can add or remove tags https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/label-or-tag-resources#tags to/from GCE instances. Use ‘instance_pattern’ to update multiple instances in a specify zone
 
Requirements (on host that executes module)
- python >= 2.6
 - apache-libcloud >= 0.17.0
 
Options
| parameter | required | default | choices | comments | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance_name | 
      no | 
        
        The name of the GCE instance to add/remove tags. Required if instance_pattern is not specified.
         | 
     ||
| instance_pattern 
        (added in 2.3)
         | 
      no | 
        
        The pattern of GCE instance names to match for adding/removing tags. Full-Python regex is supported. See https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html for details. If instance_name is not specified, this field is required.
         | 
     ||
| pem_file | 
      no | 
        
        path to the pem file associated with the service account email
         | 
     ||
| project_id | 
      no | 
        
        your GCE project ID
         | 
     ||
| service_account_email | 
      no | 
        
        service account email
         | 
     ||
| state | 
      no | present | 
       
  | 
      
        
        desired state of the tags
         | 
     
| tags | 
      yes | 
        
        comma-separated list of tags to add or remove
         | 
     ||
| zone | 
      no | us-central1-a | 
        
        the zone of the disk specified by source
         | 
     
Examples
# Add tags 'http-server', 'https-server', 'staging' to instance name 'staging-server' in zone us-central1-a.
- gce_tag:
    instance_name: staging-server
    tags: http-server,https-server,staging
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present
# Remove tags 'foo', 'bar' from instance 'test-server' in default zone (us-central1-a)
- gce_tag:
    instance_name: test-server
    tags: foo,bar
    state: absent
# Add tags 'foo', 'bar' to instances in zone that match pattern
- gce_tag:
    instance_pattern: test-server-*
    tags: foo,bar
    zone: us-central1-a
    state: present
  Notes
Note
- Either instance_name or instance_pattern is required.
 
Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
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 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/gce_tag_module.html