tower_credential_type – Create, update, or destroy custom Ansible Tower credential type

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
-
The description of the credential type to give more detail about it.
injectors
-
Enter injectors using either JSON or YAML syntax. Refer to the Ansible Tower documentation for example syntax.
inputs
-
Enter inputs using either JSON or YAML syntax. Refer to the Ansible Tower documentation for example syntax.
kind
-
    Choices:
  • ssh
  • vault
  • net
  • scm
  • cloud
  • insights
The type of credential type being added. Note that only cloud and net can be used for creating credential types. Refer to the Ansible for more information.
name
- / required
The name of the credential type.
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Desired state of the resource.
tower_config_file
path
Path to the Tower config file.
tower_host
string
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
string
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
string
Username for your Tower instance.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Tower option to avoid certificates check.

aliases: tower_verify_ssl

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.

  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- tower_credential_type:
    name: Nexus
    description: Credentials type for Nexus
    kind: cloud
    inputs: "{{ lookup('file', 'tower_credential_inputs_nexus.json') }}"
    injectors: {'extra_vars': {'nexus_credential': 'test' }}
    state: present
    validate_certs: false

- tower_credential_type:
    name: Nexus
    state: absent

Status

Authors

  • Adrien Fleury (@fleu42)

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