Ansible Collection Equinix

The Ansible Collection for Equinix contains various plugins for managing Equinix services.

What is it?

This collection of Ansible modules enables workflows for interacting with the Equinix Digital Infrastructure APIs. We have modules for managing Equinix Metal devices, elastic IPs, and projects. Additional modules help you gather info about your Equinix Metal infrastructure to use in your playbooks.

Why do we love it?

• Easy to use
  • low bar to entry using simple YAML
• Infrastructure as code that excels in configuration management
• Leverages the powerful Equinix Metal API
• Offers agentless provisioning of infrastructure or can be used with Terraform
• Well-established forum community and use-cases

How do you use it?

The collection is available on Ansible Galaxy and can be installed with the following command:

ansible-galaxy collection install equinix.cloud

The Python module dependencies are not installed by ansible-galaxy. They can be manually installed using pip:

pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/equinix-labs/ansible-collection-equinix/main/requirements.txt

You will also need an Equinix Metal API token. You can obtain an API token from the Equinix Metal Portal. Set the environment variable METAL_AUTH_TOKEN to your API token:

export METAL_AUTH_TOKEN=your_api_token_here

The following playbook creates a new device in a project you specify.

---

- name: create Equinix Metal device
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - equinix.cloud.metal_device:
        project_id: "3b516842-c8b1-485e-9f76-c891bd804c5e"
        hostname: "my-new-device"
        operating_system: ubuntu_20_04
        plan: c3.small.x86
        metro: sv

Save this to a file named main.yml and edit it to use your own project ID.

To run the playbook, navigate to the directory containing the playbook file main.yml and run the following command:

ansible-playbook main.yml

More info can be found at the Ansible Collection for Equinix GitHub repository.

Get support on the Equinix Metal Community Slack and Community Site.

Submit new feature requests on the Equinix Metal Roadmap.