The Ansible Alibaba Cloud collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of Alibaba Cloud instances. This collection is maintained by the Alibaba Cloud team.

This collection requires Python 3.6 or greater.

You can install the Alibaba Cloud collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

1. create a requirements.txt file with the following:

   collections:
     - name: https://github.com/alibaba/alibaba.alicloud.git
       type: git
       branch: master

2. running the commond to install alibaba.alicloud using requirements.txt file:

   ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.txt

You can either call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Namespace (FQCN), such as alibaba.alicloud.ali_vpc, or you can call modules by their short name if you list the alibaba.alicloud collection in the playbook's collections keyword:

---
- name: Using module alibaba.alicloud.ali_vpc
  hosts: localhost
  remote_user: root

  vars:
    name: "ansible-testacc-ali_vpc-module"
    vpc_cidr: "172.16.0.0/12"
    vpc_description: "Create a new VPC resource via Ansible example alicloud-ecs-vpc."

  roles:
    - vpc

  tasks:
    - name: Create a new vpc with user_cidrs
      alibaba.alicloud.ali_vpc:
        cidr_block: '{{ vpc_cidr }}'
        vpc_name: '{{ name }}-user_cidrs'
        description: '{{ vpc_description }}'
        user_cidrs:
          - 172.16.100.0/24
          - 172.16.101.0/24

There are several files in the module directory, and these files describe some function that can operate alicloud products.

• ali_instance.py: Create, Start, Stop, Restart or Terminate an Instance in ECS. Add or Remove Instance to/from a Security Group
• ali_disk.py: Create, Attach, Detach or Delete a disk in ECS
• ali_security_group.py: Create or Delete a Security Group
• ali_vpc.py: Create or Delete a Vpc.
• ali_vswitch.py: Create or Delete a VSwitch.
• ali_route_entry.py: Create or Delete a route entry.
• ali_slb_lb.py: Create or Delete a Load balancer.
• ali_slb_listener.py: Create or Delete a listener for one Load balancer.
• ali_slb_server.py: Add or Remove backend server to/from Load balancer.
• ali_ess_group.py: Create or Delete a scaling group.
• ali_ess_configuration.py: Create or Delete a scaling configuration.
• ali_ess_instance.py: Add or Remove ECS instnaces in a specified scaling group.
• ali_ess_task.py: Create or Delete a scheduled task for scaling activity.
• ali_ess_rule.py: Create or Delete a scaling rule.
• ali_eni.py: Create or Delete a network interface.
• ali_bucket.py: Create or Delete an OSS bucket.
• ali_bucket_object.py: Upload or Download an object to/from an OSS bucket.

In the module utils directory, the file alicloud_ecs.py identifies and gains playbook params, and provides this params to modules/*.py. In addition, this file implements connection between ansible and Alicloud API via footmark.

There are some playbooks to create some alicloud resource or build infrastructure architecture.

• Input your alicloud access key in the playbook or set environment variable:ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY and ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY).

• Input others resource params in the playbook.

• execute ansible-playbook command as follows:

  $ ansible-playbook xxx.yml
  

Ansible Document: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/

Ansible Alicloud: Docs Details