Ansible collection for Azure

This collection provides a series of Ansible modules and plugins for interacting with the Azure.

Documentation of individual modules is available in the Ansible docs site

Installation

It is recommended to run ansible in Virtualenv

Requirements

• ansible version >= 2.9

To install Azure collection hosted in Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy collection install azure.azcollection

Install dependencies required by the collection (adjust path to collection if necessary):

pip3 install -r ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/azure/azcollection/requirements-azure.txt

To upgrade to the latest version of Azure collection:

ansible-galaxy collection install azure.azcollection --force

Usage

Playbooks

To use a module from Azure collection, please reference the full namespace, collection name, and modules name that you want to use:

---
- name: Using Azure collection
  hosts: localhost
  tasks:
    - azure.azcollection.azure_rm_storageaccount:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: mystorageaccount
        account_type: Standard_LRS

Or you can add full namepsace and collection name in the collections element:

---
- name: Using Azure collection
  hosts: localhost
  collections:
    - azure.azcollection
  tasks:
    - azure_rm_storageaccount:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: mystorageaccount
        account_type: Standard_LRS

Roles

For existing Ansible roles, please also reference the full namespace, collection name, and modules name which used in tasks instead of just modules name.

Plugins

To use a plugin from Azure collection, please reference the full namespace, collection name, and plugins name that you want to use:

---
plugin: azure.azcollection.azure_rm
include_vm_resource_groups:
  - ansible-inventory-test-rg
auth_source: auto

Contributing

There are many ways in which you can participate in the project, for example:

• Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify as they are checked in
• Review source code changes
• Review the documentation and make pull requests for anything from typos to new content
• If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see the CONTRIBUTING document

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

See LICENSE to see the full text.