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community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info – Gather information about DigitalOcean Snapshot
Note
This plugin is part of the community.digitalocean collection (version 1.11.0).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.digitalocean.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info.
Synopsis
- This module can be used to gather information about snapshot information based upon provided values such as droplet, volume and snapshot id.
 - This module was called 
digital_ocean_snapshot_factsbefore Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change. 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- python >= 2.6
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| oauth_token
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        DigitalOcean OAuth token.
        
       
        There are several other environment variables which can be used to provide this value.
        
       
        i.e., - 'DO_API_TOKEN', 'DO_API_KEY', 'DO_OAUTH_TOKEN' and 'OAUTH_TOKEN'
        
       aliases: api_token  | 
     |
| snapshot_id
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        To retrieve information about a snapshot, please specify this as a snapshot id.
        
       
        If set to actual snapshot id, then information are gathered related to that particular snapshot only.
        
       
        This is required parameter, if  snapshot_type is set to by_id.
        | 
     |
| snapshot_type
        
        string
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Specifies the type of snapshot information to be retrieved.
        
       
        If set to  
       droplet, then information are gathered related to snapshots based on Droplets only.
       
        If set to  
       volume, then information are gathered related to snapshots based on volumes only.
       
        If set to  
       by_id, then information are gathered related to snapshots based on snapshot id only.
       
        If not set to any of the above, then information are gathered related to all snapshots.
         | 
     
| timeout
        
        integer
         | 
      Default: 
        30
         | 
      
        
        The timeout in seconds used for polling DigitalOcean's API.
         | 
     
| validate_certs
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        If set to  
       no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.
       
        This should only set to  no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
        | 
     
Examples
- name: Gather information about all snapshots
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: all
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"
- name: Gather information about droplet snapshots
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: droplet
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"
- name: Gather information about volume snapshots
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: volume
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"
- name: Gather information about snapshot by snapshot id
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
    snapshot_type: by_id
    snapshot_id: 123123123
    oauth_token: "{{ oauth_token }}"
- name: Get information about snapshot named big-data-snapshot1
  community.digitalocean.digital_ocean_snapshot_info:
  register: resp_out
- set_fact:
    snapshot_id: "{{ item.id }}"
  loop: "{{ resp_out.data | community.general.json_query(name) }}"
  vars:
    name: "[?name=='big-data-snapshot1']"
- debug:
    var: snapshot_id
  Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description | 
|---|---|---|
| data
        
        list / elements=dictionary
         | 
      success | 
        
        DigitalOcean snapshot information
         Sample:
        
       
        [{'created_at': '2016-09-28T23:14:30Z', 'id': '4f60fc64-85d1-11e6-a004-000f53315871', 'min_disk_size': 10, 'name': 'big-data-snapshot1', 'regions': ['nyc1'], 'resource_id': '89bcc42f-85cf-11e6-a004-000f53315871', 'resource_type': 'volume', 'size_gigabytes': 0}]
         | 
     
Authors
- Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/digitalocean/digital_ocean_snapshot_info_module.html