community.general.ipa_hostgroup module – Manage FreeIPA host-group

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ipa_hostgroup.

Synopsis

  • Add, modify and delete an IPA host-group using IPA API.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

append

boolean

added in community.general 6.6.0

If true, add the listed host to the hostgroup.

If false, only the listed host is set in hostgroup, removing any other hosts.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

cn

aliases: name

string / required

Name of host-group.

Can not be changed as it is the unique identifier.

description

string

Description.

host

list / elements=string

List of hosts that belong to the host-group.

If an empty list is passed all hosts are removed from the group.

If option is omitted hosts are not checked nor changed.

If option is passed all assigned hosts that are not passed are unassigned from the group.

hostgroup

list / elements=string

List of host-groups than belong to that host-group.

If an empty list is passed all host-groups are removed from the group.

If option is omitted host-groups are not checked nor changed.

If option is passed all assigned hostgroups that are not passed are unassigned from the group.

ipa_host

string

IP or hostname of IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_HOST will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_HOST and the value are not specified in the task, then DNS will be used to try to discover the FreeIPA server.

The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the ipa-ca entry.

If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment IPA_HOST, nor the value are available in the task, then the default value will be used.

Default: "ipa.example.com"

ipa_pass

string

Password of administrative user.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_PASS will be used instead.

Note that if the urllib_gssapi library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA.

If the environment variable KRB5CCNAME is available, the module will use this kerberos credentials cache to authenticate to the FreeIPA server.

If the environment variable KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME is available, and KRB5CCNAME is not; the module will use this kerberos keytab to authenticate.

If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of ipa_pass is required.

ipa_port

integer

Port of FreeIPA / IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_PORT will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_PORT and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Default: 443

ipa_prot

string

Protocol used by IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_PROT will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_PROT and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Choices:

  • "http"

  • "https" ← (default)

ipa_timeout

integer

Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection.

For bulk operations, you may want to increase this in order to avoid timeout from IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_TIMEOUT will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_TIMEOUT and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Default: 10

ipa_user

string

Administrative account used on IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_USER will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_USER and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Default: "admin"

state

string

State to ensure.

"absent" and "disabled" give the same results.

"present" and "enabled" give the same results.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "disabled"

  • "enabled"

  • "present" ← (default)

validate_certs

boolean

This only applies if ipa_prot is https.

If set to false, the SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to false used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • This module uses JSON-RPC over HTTP(S) to communicate with the FreeIPA server. If you need to enroll the managed node into FreeIPA realm, you might want to consider using the collection freeipa.ansible_freeipa, but shell access to one node from the realm is required to manage the deployment.

Examples

- name: Ensure host-group databases is present
  community.general.ipa_hostgroup:
    name: databases
    state: present
    host:
      - db.example.com
    hostgroup:
      - mysql-server
      - oracle-server
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret

- name: Ensure host-group databases is absent
  community.general.ipa_hostgroup:
    name: databases
    state: absent
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret

Return Values

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

Key

Description

hostgroup

dictionary

Hostgroup as returned by IPA API.

Returned: always

Authors

  • Thomas Krahn (@Nosmoht)