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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Copyright 2017 Google Inc.
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'status': ['preview'],
+                    'supported_by': 'community',
+                    'version': '1.0'}
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+module: gce_eip
+version_added: "2.3"
+short_description: Create or Destroy Global or Regional External IP addresses.
+description:
+    - Create (reserve) or Destroy (release) Regional or Global IP Addresses. See
+      U(https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/configure-instance-ip-addresses#reserve_new_static) for more on reserving static addresses.
+requirements:
+  - "python >= 2.6"
+  - "apache-libcloud >= 0.19.0"
+notes:
+  - Global addresses can only be used with Global Forwarding Rules.
+author:
+  - "Tom Melendez (@supertom) <tom@supertom.com>"
+options:
+  name:
+    description:
+       - Name of Address.
+    required: true
+  region:
+    description:
+       - Region to create the address in. Set to 'global' to create a global address.
+    required: true
+  state:
+    description: The state the address should be in. C(present) or C(absent) are the only valid options.
+    default: present
+    required: false
+    choices: [present, absent]
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+# Create a Global external IP address
+gce_eip:
+  service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
+  credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
+  project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
+  name: my-global-ip
+  region: global
+  state: present
+
+# Create a Regional external IP address
+gce_eip:
+  service_account_email: "{{ service_account_email }}"
+  credentials_file: "{{ credentials_file }}"
+  project_id: "{{ project_id }}"
+  name: my-global-ip
+  region: us-east1
+  state: present
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+address:
+    description: IP address being operated on
+    returned: always
+    type: string
+    sample: "35.186.222.233"
+name:
+    description: name of the address being operated on
+    returned: always
+    type: string
+    sample: "my-address"
+region:
+    description: Which region an address belongs.
+    returned: always
+    type: string
+    sample: "global"
+'''
+
+USER_AGENT_VERSION = 'v1'
+USER_AGENT_PRODUCT = 'Ansible-gce_eip'
+
+try:
+    import libcloud
+    from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
+    from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
+    from libcloud.common.google import GoogleBaseError, QuotaExceededError, \
+        ResourceExistsError, ResourceInUseError, ResourceNotFoundError
+    from libcloud.compute.drivers.gce import GCEAddress
+    _ = Provider.GCE
+    HAS_LIBCLOUD = True
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_LIBCLOUD = False
+
+try:
+    from ast import literal_eval
+    HAS_PYTHON26 = True
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_PYTHON26 = False
+
+def get_address(gce, name, region):
+    """
+    Get an Address from GCE.
+
+    :param gce: An initialized GCE driver object.
+    :type gce:  :class: `GCENodeDriver`
+
+    :param name: Name of the Address.
+    :type name:  ``str``
+
+    :return: A GCEAddress object or None.
+    :rtype: :class: `GCEAddress` or None
+    """
+    try:
+        return gce.ex_get_address(name=name, region=region)
+
+    except ResourceNotFoundError:
+        return None
+
+def create_address(gce, params):
+    """
+    Create a new Address.
+
+    :param gce: An initialized GCE driver object.
+    :type gce:  :class: `GCENodeDriver`
+
+    :param params: Dictionary of parameters needed by the module.
+    :type params:  ``dict``
+
+    :return: Tuple with changed status and address.
+    :rtype: tuple in the format of (bool, str)
+    """
+    changed = False
+    return_data = []
+
+    address = gce.ex_create_address(
+        name=params['name'], region=params['region'])
+
+    if address:
+        changed = True
+        return_data = address.address
+
+    return (changed, return_data)
+
+def delete_address(address):
+    """
+    Delete an Address.
+
+    :param gce: An initialized GCE driver object.
+    :type gce:  :class: `GCENodeDriver`
+
+    :param params: Dictionary of parameters needed by the module.
+    :type params:  ``dict``
+
+    :return: Tuple with changed status and address.
+    :rtype: tuple in the format of (bool, str)
+    """
+    changed = False
+    return_data = []
+    if address.destroy():
+        changed = True
+        return_data = address.address
+    return (changed, return_data)
+
+def main():
+    module = AnsibleModule(argument_spec=dict(
+        name=dict(required=True),
+        state=dict(choices=['absent', 'present'], default='present'),
+        region=dict(required=True),
+        service_account_email=dict(),
+        service_account_permissions=dict(type='list'),
+        pem_file=dict(),
+        credentials_file=dict(),
+        project_id=dict(), ), )
+
+    if not HAS_PYTHON26:
+        module.fail_json(
+            msg="GCE module requires python's 'ast' module, python v2.6+")
+    if not HAS_LIBCLOUD:
+        module.fail_json(
+            msg='libcloud with GCE support (+0.19) required for this module.')
+
+    gce = gcp_connect(module, Provider.GCE, get_driver,
+                      USER_AGENT_PRODUCT, USER_AGENT_VERSION)
+
+    params = {}
+    params['state'] = module.params.get('state')
+    params['name'] = module.params.get('name')
+    params['region'] = module.params.get('region')
+
+    changed = False
+    json_output = {'state': params['state']}
+    address = get_address(gce, params['name'], region=params['region'])
+
+    if params['state'] == 'absent':
+        if not address:
+            # Doesn't exist in GCE, and state==absent.
+            changed = False
+            module.fail_json(
+                msg="Cannot delete unknown address: %s" %
+                (params['name']))
+        else:
+            # Delete
+            (changed, json_output['address']) = delete_address(address)
+    else:
+        if not address:
+            # Create
+            (changed, json_output['address']) = create_address(gce,
+                                                               params)
+        else:
+            changed = False
+            json_output['address'] = address.address
+
+    json_output['changed'] = changed
+    json_output.update(params)
+    module.exit_json(**json_output)
+
+# import module snippets
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import *
+from ansible.module_utils.gcp import gcp_connect
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()