community.google.gcp_storage_file – Return GC Storage content

Note

This plugin is part of the community.google collection (version 1.0.0).

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.google.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.google.gcp_storage_file.

Synopsis

This lookup returns the contents from a file residing on Google Cloud Storage

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

python >= 2.6
requests >= 2.18.4
google-auth >= 1.3.0

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_kind string / required	Choices: application machineaccount serviceaccount	The type of credential used.
bucket string		The name of the bucket.
env_type string		Specifies which Ansible environment you're running this module within. This should not be set unless you know what you're doing. This only alters the User Agent string for any API requests.
project string		The Google Cloud Platform project to use.
scopes list / elements=string		Array of scopes to be used.
service_account_contents jsonarg		The contents of a Service Account JSON file, either in a dictionary or as a JSON string that represents it.
service_account_email string		An optional service account email address if machineaccount is selected and the user does not wish to use the default email.
service_account_file path		The path of a Service Account JSON file if serviceaccount is selected as type.
src string		Source location of file (may be local machine or cloud depending on action).

Notes

Note

for authentication, you can set service_account_file using the c(gcp_service_account_file) env variable.
for authentication, you can set service_account_contents using the c(GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CONTENTS) env variable.
For authentication, you can set service_account_email using the GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL env variable.
For authentication, you can set auth_kind using the GCP_AUTH_KIND env variable.
For authentication, you can set scopes using the GCP_SCOPES env variable.
Environment variables values will only be used if the playbook values are not set.
The service_account_email and service_account_file options are mutually exclusive.

Examples

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: |
         the value of foo.txt is {{ lookup('community.google.gcp_storage_file',
         bucket='gcp-bucket', src='mydir/foo.txt', project='project-name',
         auth_kind='serviceaccount', service_account_file='/tmp/myserviceaccountfile.json') }}

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key	Returned	Description
_raw list / elements=string	success	base64 encoded file content

Authors

Eric Anderson (!UNKNOWN) <eanderson@avinetworks.com>

© 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/google/gcp_storage_file_lookup.html

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