| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
                
                                                            | 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 latestis appropriate for public clouds; future values will allow use with Azure Stack. | 
                            
                                                            | append_tags 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | 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:
                                                                                                                                                            autoclicredential_fileenvmsi | 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 autoif variable is not defined. autowill 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_SOURCEenvironment variable. When set to msi, the host machine must be an azure resource with an enabled MSI extension.subscription_idor the environment variableAZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_IDcan 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 msiwas added in Ansible 2.6. | 
                            
                                                            | cert_validation_mode 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.5 |  | 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 theAZURE_CERT_VALIDATIONenvironment 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 theAZURE_CLOUD_ENVIRONMENTenvironment variable. | 
                            
                                                            | containers 
                    -
                                                                 |  | List of containers. Required when creation. | 
                                                        
                                                |  | commands 
                    list
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | List of commands to execute within the container instance in exec form. When updating existing container all existing commands will be replaced by new ones. | 
                            
                                                |  | cpu 
                    float
                                                                 | Default: 
 1 | The required number of CPU cores of the containers. | 
                            
                                                |  | environment_variables 
                    dictionary
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | List of container environment variables. When updating existing container all existing variables will be replaced by new ones. | 
                                                        
                                                |  |  | is_secure 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | Is variable secure. | 
                            
                                                |  |  | name 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Environment variable name. | 
                            
                                                |  |  | value 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Environment variable value. | 
                                            
                                                |  | image 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The container image name. | 
                            
                                                |  | memory 
                    float
                                                                 | Default: 
 1.5 | The required memory of the containers in GB. | 
                            
                                                |  | name 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the container instance. | 
                            
                                                |  | ports 
                    list
                                                                 |  | List of ports exposed within the container group. | 
                                            
                                                            | dns_name_label 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | The Dns name label for the IP. | 
                            
                                                            | force_update 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | Force update of existing container instance. Any update will result in deletion and recreation of existing containers. | 
                            
                                                            | ip_address 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The IP address type of the container group. Default is noneand creating an instance without public IP. | 
                            
                                                            | location 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Valid azure location. Defaults to location of the resource group. | 
                            
                                                            | name 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the container group. | 
                            
                                                            | os_type 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The OS type of containers. | 
                            
                                                            | password 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Active Directory user password. Use when authenticating with an Active Directory user rather than service principal. | 
                            
                                                            | ports 
                    list
                                                                 |  | List of ports exposed within the container group. This option is deprecated, using ports under containers". | 
                            
                                                            | profile 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Security profile found in ~/.azure/credentials file. | 
                            
                                                            | registry_login_server 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The container image registry login server. | 
                            
                                                            | registry_password 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The password to log in container image registry server. | 
                            
                                                            | registry_username 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The username to log in container image registry server. | 
                            
                                                            | resource_group 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | Name of resource group. | 
                            
                                                            | restart_policy 
                    string
                                                                 added in 2.8 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            alwayson_failurenever | Restart policy for all containers within the container group. | 
                            
                                                            | secret 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Azure client secret. Use when authenticating with a Service Principal. | 
                            
                                                            | state 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            absentpresent ← | Assert the state of the container instance. Use presentto create or update an container instance andabsentto delete it. | 
                            
                                                            | 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. |