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[PR #7714/838e4e3f backport][stable-8] Add Alicloud, Online, Packet, and Scaleway scenario guides (#7719)
Add Alicloud, Online, Packet, and Scaleway scenario guides (#7714)

* Add Alicloud, Packet, and Scaleway scenario guides.

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* Fix references.

* Add Online guide.

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Copyright (c) Ansible Project
GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
.. _ansible_collections.community.general.docsite.guide_alicloud:
Alibaba Cloud Compute Services Guide
====================================
Introduction
````````````
The community.general collection contains several modules for controlling and managing Alibaba Cloud Compute Services (Alicloud). This guide
explains how to use the Alicloud Ansible modules together.
All Alicloud modules require ``footmark`` - install it on your control machine with ``pip install footmark``.
Cloud modules, including Alicloud modules, are usually executed on your local machine (the control machine) with ``connection: local``, rather than on remote machines defined in your hosts.
Normally, you'll use the following pattern for plays that provision Alicloud resources:
.. code-block:: yaml
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
vars:
- ...
tasks:
- ...
Authentication
``````````````
You can specify your Alicloud authentication credentials (access key and secret key) by passing them as
environment variables or by storing them in a vars file.
To pass authentication credentials as environment variables:
.. code-block:: console
export ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY='Alicloud123'
export ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY='AlicloudSecret123'
To store authentication credentials in a vars file, encrypt them with :ref:`Ansible Vault <vault>` to keep them secure, then list them:
.. code-block:: yaml
---
alicloud_access_key: "--REMOVED--"
alicloud_secret_key: "--REMOVED--"
Note that if you store your credentials in a vars file, you need to refer to them in each Alicloud module. For example:
.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
- community.general.ali_instance:
alicloud_access_key: "{{ alicloud_access_key }}"
alicloud_secret_key: "{{ alicloud_secret_key }}"
image_id: "..."
Provisioning
````````````
Alicloud modules create Alicloud ECS instances (:ansplugin:`community.general.ali_instance#module`) and retrieve information on these (:ansplugin:`community.general.ali_instance_info#module`).
You can use the ``count`` parameter to control the number of resources you create or terminate. For example, if you want exactly 5 instances tagged ``NewECS``, set the ``count`` of instances to 5 and the ``count_tag`` to ``NewECS``, as shown in the last task of the example playbook below. If there are no instances with the tag ``NewECS``, the task creates 5 new instances. If there are 2 instances with that tag, the task creates 3 more. If there are 8 instances with that tag, the task terminates 3 of those instances.
If you do not specify a ``count_tag``, the task creates the number of instances you specify in ``count`` with the ``instance_name`` you provide.
.. code-block:: yaml+jinja
# alicloud_setup.yml
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Create a set of instances
community.general.ali_instance:
instance_type: ecs.n4.small
image_id: "{{ ami_id }}"
instance_name: "My-new-instance"
instance_tags:
Name: NewECS
Version: 0.0.1
count: 5
count_tag:
Name: NewECS
allocate_public_ip: true
max_bandwidth_out: 50
register: create_instance
In the example playbook above, data about the instances created by this playbook is saved in the variable defined by the ``register`` keyword in the task.
Each Alicloud module offers a variety of parameter options. Not all options are demonstrated in the above example. See each individual module for further details and examples.