# azure_rm_storageaccount – Manage Azure storage accounts

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- See Also
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Create, update or delete a storage account.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 2.7
- azure >= 2.0.0

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---

access_tier
-
added in 2.4

Choices:
- Hot
- Cool

The access tier for this storage account. Required when kind=BlobStorage.

account_type
-

Choices:
- Premium_LRS
- Standard_GRS
- Standard_LRS
- StandardSSD_LRS
- Standard_RAGRS
- Standard_ZRS
- Premium_ZRS

Type of storage account. Required when creating a storage account.
`Standard_ZRS` and `Premium_LRS` accounts cannot be changed to other account types.
Other account types cannot be changed to `Standard_ZRS` or `Premium_LRS`.
aliases: type

ad_user string |  | Active Directory username. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
adfs_authority_url string added in 2.6 |  | Azure AD authority url. Use when authenticating with Username/password, and has your own ADFS authority.
api_profile string added in 2.5 | Default: "latest" | Selects an API profile to use when communicating with Azure services. Default value of `latest` is appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack.

append_tags
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

Use to control if tags field is canonical or just appends to existing tags.
When canonical, any tags not found in the tags parameter will be removed from the object's metadata.

auth_source
string
added in 2.5

Choices:
- auto
- cli
- credential_file
- env
- msi

Controls the source of the credentials to use for authentication.
If not specified, ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE environment variable will be used and default to `auto` if variable is not defined.
`auto` will follow the default precedence of module parameters -> environment variables -> default profile in credential file `~/.azure/credentials`.
When set to `cli`, the credentials will be sources from the default Azure CLI profile.
Can also be set via the `ANSIBLE_AZURE_AUTH_SOURCE` environment variable.
When set to `msi`, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension. `subscription_id` or the environment variable `AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID` can be used to identify the subscription ID if the resource is granted access to more than one subscription, otherwise the first subscription is chosen.
The `msi` was added in Ansible 2.6.

blob_cors list added in 2.8 |  | Specifies CORS rules for the Blob service. You can include up to five CorsRule elements in the request. If no blob_cors elements are included in the argument list, nothing about CORS will be changed. If you want to delete all CORS rules and disable CORS for the Blob service, explicitly set blob_cors=[].
| allowed_headers list / required |  | A list of headers allowed to be part of the cross-origin request.
| allowed_methods list / required |  | A list of HTTP methods that are allowed to be executed by the origin.
| allowed_origins list / required |  | A list of origin domains that will be allowed via CORS, or "*" to allow all domains.
| exposed_headers list / required |  | A list of response headers to expose to CORS clients.
| max_age_in_seconds integer / required |  | The number of seconds that the client/browser should cache a preflight response.

cert_validation_mode
string
added in 2.5

Choices:
- ignore
- validate

Controls the certificate validation behavior for Azure endpoints. By default, all modules will validate the server certificate, but when an HTTPS proxy is in use, or against Azure Stack, it may be necessary to disable this behavior by passing `ignore`. Can also be set via credential file profile or the `AZURE_CERT_VALIDATION` environment variable.

client_id string |  | Azure client ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.
cloud_environment string added in 2.4 | Default: "AzureCloud" | For cloud environments other than the US public cloud, the environment name (as defined by Azure Python SDK, eg, `AzureChinaCloud`, `AzureUSGovernment`), or a metadata discovery endpoint URL (required for Azure Stack). Can also be set via credential file profile or the `AZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT` environment variable.

custom_domain
-

User domain assigned to the storage account.
Must be a dictionary with name and use_sub_domain keys where name is the CNAME source.
Only one custom domain is supported per storage account at this time.
To clear the existing custom domain, use an empty string for the custom domain name property.
Can be added to an existing storage account. Will be ignored during storage account creation.
aliases: custom_dns_domain_suffix

force_delete_nonempty
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

Attempt deletion if resource already exists and cannot be updated.
aliases: force

https_only
boolean
added in 2.8

Choices:
- no
- yes

Allows https traffic only to storage service when set to `true`.

kind
-

Choices:
- Storage ←
- StorageV2
- BlobStorage

The kind of storage.

location - |  | Valid Azure location. Defaults to location of the resource group.
name - |  | Name of the storage account to update or create.
password string |  | Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal.
profile string |  | Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file.
resource_group - / required |  | Name of the resource group to use. aliases: resource_group_name
secret string |  | Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

state
-

Choices:
- absent
- present ←

State of the storage account. Use `present` to create or update a storage account and use `absent` to delete an account.

subscription_id string |  | Your Azure subscription Id.
tags dictionary |  | Dictionary of string:string pairs to assign as metadata to the object. Metadata tags on the object will be updated with any provided values. To remove tags set append_tags option to false.
tenant string |  | Azure tenant ID. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal.

## Notes

Note

- For authentication with Azure you can pass parameters, set environment variables, use a profile stored in ~/.azure/credentials, or log in before you run your tasks or playbook with `az login`.
- Authentication is also possible using a service principal or Active Directory user.
- To authenticate via service principal, pass subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or set environment variables AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_SECRET and AZURE_TENANT.
- To authenticate via Active Directory user, pass ad_user and password, or set AZURE_AD_USER and AZURE_PASSWORD in the environment.
- Alternatively, credentials can be stored in ~/.azure/credentials. This is an ini file containing a [default] section and the following keys: subscription_id, client_id, secret and tenant or subscription_id, ad_user and password. It is also possible to add additional profiles. Specify the profile by passing profile or setting AZURE_PROFILE in the environment.

## See Also

See also

Sign in with Azure CLI
  How to authenticate using the `az login` command.

## Examples

    - name: remove account, if it exists
      azure_rm_storageaccount:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: clh0002
        state: absent

    - name: create an account
      azure_rm_storageaccount:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: clh0002
        type: Standard_RAGRS
        tags:
          testing: testing
          delete: on-exit

    - name: create an account with blob CORS
      azure_rm_storageaccount:
        resource_group: myResourceGroup
        name: clh002
        type: Standard_RAGRS
        blob_cors:
            - allowed_origins:
                - http://www.example.com/
              allowed_methods:
                - GET
                - POST
              allowed_headers:
                - x-ms-meta-data*
                - x-ms-meta-target*
                - x-ms-meta-abc
              exposed_headers:
                - x-ms-meta-*
              max_age_in_seconds: 200

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
state complex | always | Current state of the storage account.
| account_type string | always | Type of storage account. Sample: Standard_RAGRS
| custom_domain complex | always | User domain assigned to the storage account.
|  | name string | always | CNAME source. Sample: testaccount
|  | use_sub_domain boolean | always | Whether to use sub domain. Sample: True
| id string | always | Resource ID. Sample: /subscriptions/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/myResourceGroup/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/clh0003
| location string | always | Valid Azure location. Defaults to location of the resource group. Sample: eastus2
| name string | always | Name of the storage account to update or create. Sample: clh0003
| primary_endpoints dictionary | always | The URLs to retrieve the public blob, queue, or table object from the primary location. Sample: {'blob': 'https://clh0003.blob.core.windows.net/', 'queue': 'https://clh0003.queue.core.windows.net/', 'table': 'https://clh0003.table.core.windows.net/'}
| primary_location string | always | The location of the primary data center for the storage account. Sample: eastus2
| provisioning_state string | always | The status of the storage account. Possible values include `Creating`, `ResolvingDNS`, `Succeeded`. Sample: Succeeded
| resource_group string | always | The resource group's name. Sample: Testing
| secondary_endpoints dictionary | always | The URLs to retrieve the public blob, queue, or table object from the secondary location. Sample: {'blob': 'https://clh0003-secondary.blob.core.windows.net/', 'queue': 'https://clh0003-secondary.queue.core.windows.net/', 'table': 'https://clh0003-secondary.table.core.windows.net/'}
| secondary_location string | always | The location of the geo-replicated secondary for the storage account. Sample: centralus
| status_of_primary string | always | The status of the primary location of the storage account; either `available` or `unavailable`. Sample: available
| status_of_secondary string | always | The status of the secondary location of the storage account; either `available` or `unavailable`. Sample: available
| tags dictionary | always | Resource tags. Sample: {'tags1': 'value1'}
| type string | always | The storage account type. Sample: Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Chris Houseknecht (@chouseknecht)
- Matt Davis (@nitzmahone)

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