instance_info

Get info about a Linode Instance.

Minimum Required Fields
Examples
Parameters
Return Values

Minimum Required Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
`api_token`	`str`	Required	The Linode account personal access token. It is necessary to run the module. It can be exposed by the environment variable `LINODE_API_TOKEN` instead. See details in Usage.

Examples

- name: Get info about an instance by label
  linode.cloud.instance_info:
    label: 'my-instance'

- name: Get info about an instance by id
  linode.cloud.instance_info:
    id: 12345

Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
`id`	`int`	Optional	The ID of the Instance to resolve. (Conflicts With: `label`)
`label`	`str`	Optional	The label of the Instance to resolve. (Conflicts With: `id`)

Return Values

instance - The returned Instance.

Sample Response:

{
  "alerts": {
    "cpu": 180,
    "io": 10000,
    "network_in": 10,
    "network_out": 10,
    "transfer_quota": 80
  },
  "backups": {
    "enabled": true,
    "last_successful": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
    "schedule": {
      "day": "Saturday",
      "window": "W22"
    }
  },
  "created": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
  "group": "Linode-Group",
  "has_user_data": true,
  "hypervisor": "kvm",
  "id": 123,
  "image": "linode/debian11",
  "ipv4": [
    "203.0.113.1",
    "192.0.2.1"
  ],
  "ipv6": "c001:d00d::1337/128",
  "label": "linode123",
  "region": "us-east",
  "specs": {
    "disk": 81920,
    "memory": 4096,
    "transfer": 4000,
    "vcpus": 2
  },
  "status": "running",
  "tags": [
    "example tag",
    "another example"
  ],
  "type": "g6-standard-1",
  "updated": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
  "watchdog_enabled": true,
  "disk_encryption": "enabled",
  "lke_cluster_id": null,
  "placement_group": {
    "id": 123,
    "label": "test",
    "placement_group_type": "anti_affinity:local",
    "placement_group_policy": "strict"
  }
}

See the Linode API response documentation for a list of returned fields

configs - The returned Configs.

Sample Response:

[
  {
    "comments": "This is my main Config",
    "devices": {
      "sda": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sdb": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sdc": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sdd": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sde": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sdf": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sdg": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      },
      "sdh": {
        "disk_id": 124458,
        "volume_id": null
      }
    },
    "helpers": {
      "devtmpfs_automount": false,
      "distro": true,
      "modules_dep": true,
      "network": true,
      "updatedb_disabled": true
    },
    "id": 23456,
    "interfaces": [
      {
        "ipam_address": "10.0.0.1/24",
        "label": "example-interface",
        "purpose": "vlan"
      }
    ],
    "kernel": "linode/latest-64bit",
    "label": "My Config",
    "memory_limit": 2048,
    "root_device": "/dev/sda",
    "run_level": "default",
    "virt_mode": "paravirt"
  }
]

See the Linode API response documentation for a list of returned fields

disks - The returned Disks.

Sample Response:

[
  {
    "created": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
    "filesystem": "ext4",
    "id": 25674,
    "label": "Debian 9 Disk",
    "size": 48640,
    "status": "ready",
    "updated": "2018-01-01T00:01:01",
    "disk_encryption": "enabled"
  }
]

See the Linode API response documentation for a list of returned fields

networking - The returned Networking Configuration.

Sample Response:

{
  "ipv4": {
    "private": [
      {
        "address": "192.168.133.234",
        "gateway": null,
        "linode_id": 123,
        "prefix": 17,
        "public": false,
        "rdns": null,
        "region": "us-east",
        "subnet_mask": "255.255.128.0",
        "type": "ipv4"
      }
    ],
    "public": [
      {
        "address": "97.107.143.141",
        "gateway": "97.107.143.1",
        "linode_id": 123,
        "prefix": 24,
        "public": true,
        "rdns": "test.example.org",
        "region": "us-east",
        "subnet_mask": "255.255.255.0",
        "type": "ipv4"
      }
    ],
    "reserved": [
      {
        "address": "97.107.143.141",
        "gateway": "97.107.143.1",
        "linode_id": 123,
        "prefix": 24,
        "public": true,
        "rdns": "test.example.org",
        "region": "us-east",
        "subnet_mask": "255.255.255.0",
        "type": "ipv4"
      }
    ],
    "shared": [
      {
        "address": "97.107.143.141",
        "gateway": "97.107.143.1",
        "linode_id": 123,
        "prefix": 24,
        "public": true,
        "rdns": "test.example.org",
        "region": "us-east",
        "subnet_mask": "255.255.255.0",
        "type": "ipv4"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ipv6": {
    "global": {
      "prefix": 124,
      "range": "2600:3c01::2:5000:0",
      "region": "us-east",
      "route_target": "2600:3c01::2:5000:f"
    },
    "link_local": {
      "address": "fe80::f03c:91ff:fe24:3a2f",
      "gateway": "fe80::1",
      "linode_id": 123,
      "prefix": 64,
      "public": false,
      "rdns": null,
      "region": "us-east",
      "subnet_mask": "ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff",
      "type": "ipv6"
    },
    "slaac": {
      "address": "2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fe24:3a2f",
      "gateway": "fe80::1",
      "linode_id": 123,
      "prefix": 64,
      "public": true,
      "rdns": null,
      "region": "us-east",
      "subnet_mask": "ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff",
      "type": "ipv6"
    }
  }
}

See the Linode API response documentation for a list of returned fields

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