gcp_compute_network – Creates a GCP Network — Ansible Documentation

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# gcp_compute_network – Creates a GCP Network

New in version 2.6.

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Manages a VPC network or legacy network resource on GCP.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- 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.
auto_create_subnetworks boolean | Choices: no yes | When set to `true`, the network is created in "auto subnet mode" and it will create a subnet for each region automatically across the `10.128.0.0/9` address range. When set to `false`, the network is created in "custom subnet mode" so the user can explicitly connect subnetwork resources.
description - |  | An optional description of this resource. The resource must be recreated to modify this field.
ipv4_range - |  | If this field is specified, a deprecated legacy network is created. You will no longer be able to create a legacy network on Feb 1, 2020. See the [legacy network docs](https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/legacy) for more details. The range of internal addresses that are legal on this legacy network. This range is a CIDR specification, for example: `192.168.0.0/16`. The resource must be recreated to modify this field.
name - / required |  | Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression `[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?` which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.
project string |  | The Google Cloud Platform project to use.
routing_config - added in 2.8 |  | The network-level routing configuration for this network. Used by Cloud Router to determine what type of network-wide routing behavior to enforce.
| routing_mode - / required | Choices: REGIONAL GLOBAL | The network-wide routing mode to use. If set to `REGIONAL`, this network's cloud routers will only advertise routes with subnetworks of this network in the same region as the router. If set to `GLOBAL`, this network's cloud routers will advertise routes with all subnetworks of this network, across regions.
scopes list |  | Array of scopes to be used.
service_account_contents string |  | A string representing the contents of a Service Account JSON file. This should not be passed in as a dictionary, but a string that has the exact contents of a service account json file (valid JSON)
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.
state - | Choices: present ← absent | Whether the given object should exist in GCP

## Notes

Note

- API Reference: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/networks
- Official Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/vpc
- For authentication, you can set service_account_file using the `GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE` env variable.
- For authentication, you can set service_account_email using the `GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL` env variable.
- For authentication, you can set service_account_contents using the `GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CONTENTS` 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

    - name: create a network
      gcp_compute_network:
        name: test_object
        auto_create_subnetworks: 'true'
        project: test_project
        auth_kind: serviceaccount
        service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
        state: present

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
autoCreateSubnetworks boolean | success | When set to `true`, the network is created in "auto subnet mode" and it will create a subnet for each region automatically across the `10.128.0.0/9` address range. When set to `false`, the network is created in "custom subnet mode" so the user can explicitly connect subnetwork resources.
creationTimestamp string | success | Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
description string | success | An optional description of this resource. The resource must be recreated to modify this field.
gateway_ipv4 string | success | The gateway address for default routing out of the network. This value is selected by GCP.
id integer | success | The unique identifier for the resource.
ipv4_range string | success | If this field is specified, a deprecated legacy network is created. You will no longer be able to create a legacy network on Feb 1, 2020. See the [legacy network docs](https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/legacy) for more details. The range of internal addresses that are legal on this legacy network. This range is a CIDR specification, for example: `192.168.0.0/16`. The resource must be recreated to modify this field.
name string | success | Name of the resource. Provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression `[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?` which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.
routingConfig complex | success | The network-level routing configuration for this network. Used by Cloud Router to determine what type of network-wide routing behavior to enforce.
| routingMode string | success | The network-wide routing mode to use. If set to `REGIONAL`, this network's cloud routers will only advertise routes with subnetworks of this network in the same region as the router. If set to `GLOBAL`, this network's cloud routers will advertise routes with all subnetworks of this network, across regions.
subnetworks list | success | Server-defined fully-qualified URLs for all subnetworks in this network.

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Google Inc. (@googlecloudplatform)

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