mist_backends - Manage backends in the mist.io service

Synopsis

New in version 1.7.1.

Manage multi-cloud backends through mist.io service. You can add/remove multiple backends from multiple providers through mist.io service. Before you can provision, monitor etc machines through mist.io, you have to first add a backend to the mist.io service. Mist.io supports EC2, Rackspace, Openstack, Linode, Google Compute Engine, SoftLayer, Digital Ocean, Nephoscale, Bare metal servers, Docker containers, HP Cloud, Azure, VmWare - Vcloud, KV``libvirt``, mist_email and mist_password can be skipped if ~/.mist config file is present. See documentation for config file http://mistclient.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cmd/cmd.html

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
mist_email	no			Email to login to the mist.io service
mist_password	no			Password to login to the mist.io service
mist_uri	no	https://mist.io		Url of the mist.io service. By default https://mist.io. But if you have a custom installation of mist.io you can provide the url here
provider	no			Provider id for the backend you want to add to mist.io. You can see all the providers ids using the mist_providers module.
state	no		present absent	If provided it will instruct the module to trigger backend actions, otherwise it will only list information
title	no			The title you want the backend to have

Examples

- name: Add EC2 backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyEC2
    provider: ec2
    api_key: kjhf98y9lkj0909kj90edffwwf432fd
    api_secret: LKHLKjlkdlkho8976dhjkjhd987987
    region: ec2_ap_northeast
    state: present

- name: Add Rackspace backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyRackspace
    provider: rackspace
    region: dfw
    username: rack_username
    api_key: sadlkjnjkhbi0HBCG
    state: present

- name: Add Nephoscale backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyNepho
    provider: nephoscale
    username: nepho_user
    password: nepho_pass
    state: present

- name: Add SoftLayer backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MySoftLayer
    provider: softlayer
    username: SL09890
    api_key: kjhdskjhad987987098sdlkhjlajslkj
    state: present

- name: Add Digital Ocena backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyDigi
    provider: digitalocean
    token: oiulksdjkjhd0987098lkahkjdhkj....
    state: present

- name: Add Google Compute Engine backend
  mist_backends:
    title: GCE
    provider: gce
    email: my.gce.email@gce
    project_id: electron-25
    private_key: /path/to/locally/stored/private_key
    state: present

- name: Add Azure backend
  mist_backends:
    title: AZURE
    provider: azure
    subscription_id: lkjafh-08jhkl-09kljlj...
    certificate: /path/to/locally/saved/certificate
    state: present

- name: Add Linode backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyLinode
    provider: linode
    api_key: dlkjdljkd0989yKGFgjgc86798ohkl
    state: present

- name: Add Bare Metal (or any server with ssh access)
  mist_backends:
    title: MyOtherServer
    provider: bare_metal
    machine_ip: 190.20.10.45
    machine_user: myuser
    machine_key: name_of_key_added_to_mist.io
    machine_port: 22
    state: present

- name: Add vCloud backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyVCLOUD
    provider: vcloud
    username: vuser
    password: vpass
    organization: Mist.io
    host: compute.idcloudonline.com
    state: present

- name: Add Indonesian vCloud backend
  mist_backends:
    title: IndoVCLOUD
    provider: indonesian_vcloud
    username: vuser
    password: vpass
    organization: Mist.io
    state: present

- name: Add KVM(libvirt) backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyKVM
    provider: libvirt
    machine_hostname: 190.198.23.0
    machine_user: root
    machine_key: name_of_key_added_to_mist.io
    state: present

- name: Add HP Cloud backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyHP
    provider: hpcloud
    region: region-a.geo-1
    username: hpuser
    password: hppass
    tenant_name: my_tenant
    state: present

- name: Add Openstack backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyOPENSTACK
    provider: openstack
    username: user
    password: pass
    tenant_name: admin
    auth_url: http://190.132.20.22:5000
    region: my_region_if_exists
    state: present

- name: Add Docker backend
  mist_backends:
    title: MyDOCKER
    provider: docker
    docker_host: 190.189.1.2
    docker_port: 4243
    auth_user: user if I have Basic HTTP AUTH setup
    auth_password: pass if I have Basic HTTP AUTH setup
    key_file: path to key file if I have TLS setup
    cert_file: path to cert file if I have TLS setup

- name: List information about DigitalOcean backend
  mist_backends:
    mist_email: your@email.com
    mist_password: yourpassword
    backend: DigitalOcean
  register: backend