Compress and send to Google Cloud Storage

Simple Ansible playbook to compress a folder into a tar.gz file and upload it to a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

This playbook uses the gc_storage_module: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/modules/gc_storage_module.html

Requirements

• Make
• Ansible
• GCP Service Account credentials: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/scenario_guides/guide_gce.html#credentials
• pwgen (optional)

Usage

1. cp vars_secret.yml-example vars_secret.yml and change the new file with your GCP credentials & bucket name
2. Create a random file as an Ansible key: make ansible_key
3. Encrypt vars_secret.yml with ansible_vault.key: make encrypt
4. Run playbook: make run

Security

• Remove line vault_secret.yml from .gitignore if you want to push your changes.
• Save the key ansible_vault.key outside this repo.

Included files

.
├── ansible.cfg        # Ansible default configuration
├── ansible_vault.key  # Ansible Vault key file
├── backup.sh          # Script that backups to a tar.gz file
├── Makefile           # Make script for running commands
├── playbook.yml       # Backup tasks
├── README.md          # These instructions
├── requirements.txt   # Python requirements
├── vars_secret.yml    # Unencrypted Ansible vars
└── vault_secret.yml   # Encrypted Ansible vars (with Ansible Vault key file)