theforeman.foreman.role – Manage Roles

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 1.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.role.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete Roles

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
string
Description of the role
filters
list / elements=dictionary
Filters with permissions for this role
permissions
list / elements=string / required
List of permissions
search
string
Filter condition for the resources
locations
list / elements=string
List of locations the entity should be assigned to
name
string / required
The name of the role
organizations
list / elements=string
List of organizations the entity should be assigned to
password
string / required
Password of the user accessing the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
server_url
string / required
URL of the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
State of the entity
username
string / required
Username accessing the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server.
If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Examples

- name: role
  theforeman.foreman.role:
    name: "Provisioner"
    description: "Only provision on libvirt"
    locations:
      - "Uppsala"
    organizations:
      - "ACME"
    filters:
      - permissions:
          - view_hosts
        search: "owner_type = Usergroup and owner_id = 4"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
entity
dictionary
success
Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
 
roles
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of roles.


Authors

  • Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB