rhsm_repository – Manage RHSM repositories using the subscription-manager command

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • Manage (Enable/Disable) RHSM repositories to the Red Hat Subscription Management entitlement platform using the subscription-manager command.

Requirements

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

  • subscription-manager

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
- / required
The ID of repositories to enable.
To operate on several repositories this can accept a comma separated list or a YAML list.
purge
boolean
added in 2.8
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Disable all currently enabled repositories that are not not specified in name. Only set this to True if passing in a list of repositories to the name field. Using this with loop will most likely not have the desired result.
state
- / required
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • enabled
  • absent
  • disabled
If state is equal to present or disabled, indicates the desired repository state.

Notes

Note

  • In order to manage RHSM repositories the system must be already registered to RHSM manually or using the Ansible redhat_subscription module.

Examples

- name: Enable a RHSM repository
  rhsm_repository:
    name: rhel-7-server-rpms

- name: Disable all RHSM repositories
  rhsm_repository:
    name: '*'
    state: disabled

- name: Enable all repositories starting with rhel-6-server
  rhsm_repository:
    name: rhel-6-server*
    state: enabled

- name: Disable all repositories except rhel-7-server-rpms
  rhsm_repository:
    name: rhel-7-server-rpms
    purge: True

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
repositories
list
success
The list of RHSM repositories with their states.
When this module is used to change the repository states, this list contains the updated states after the changes.


Status

Authors

  • Giovanni Sciortino (@giovannisciortino)

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