Reviewing playbooks and roles
Let's jump right into examining the role we created, named create-snapshot. The completed role and file, named main.yml, located in the create-snapshot/tasks directory, looks like this:
---
- name: Retrieve tenantID
shell: openstack --os-cloud="{{ CLOUD_NAME }}"
project list | awk '/ "{{tenantname}}" / { print $2 }'
register: tenantid
- name: Retrieve instance id from tenant
shell: openstack --os-cloud="{{ CLOUD_NAME }}"
server list --all-projects --project "{{ tenantid.stdout }}" | awk 'NR > 3 { print $2 }'
register: instid
- name: Create instance snapshot
command: openstack --os-cloud="{{ CLOUD_NAME }}"
server image create --name="{{ tenantname }}"-snap-"{{ item }}" "{{ item }}"
with_items: "{{instid.stdout_lines}}"
register: command_result
failed_when: "'_info' not in command_result.stderr"
The corresponding variable file...
