Using Ansible with Google Cloud Platform inventory source

Check if Ansible google.cloud plugin collection is already installed

$ ansible-galaxy collection list | grep google.cloud
google.cloud                  1.0.2

If not install the Ansible google.cloud plugin collection

$ ansible-galaxy collection install google.cloud

Before proceeding, open the misc/inventory.gcp.yml file and change the following params, according to your environment:

projects:
  - myproj
service_account_file: credentials.json

Test the inventory creation

$ ansible --list-hosts all

Test the connection to computes

$ ansible -m ping all 

Using playbook

$ CLOUDSDK_PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES=1 ansible-playbook test.yml