Creating snapshots for backup

Often we will need to create snapshots of instances. These can be used as backup or to create more instances to scale up . Typically, a daily or weekly cron of the Ansible task would help in maintaining a periodic backup.

How to do it...

We can use the gce_snapshot module to create a snapshot:

- name: create snapshot of instance
  gce_snapshot:
    instance_name: app
    snapshot_name: app-snapshot
    state: present
    service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
    project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
    credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
  tags:
  - recipe4

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